Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slam the door and try to hide it . . . I don't care if there is a Baker's dozen of sacred cows involved in this scandal-they should be herded out in a roundup of honesty." Cheers and applause were thunderous. Even better: the $100-a-plate dinner netted nearly $400,000 for the Goldwater campaign treasury. > Governor Rockefeller returned to New York from his California swing-and probably wished that he had stayed away longer. The state assembly in Albany turned down a pet Rockefeller plan to provide $165 million in new state funds for public housing...
...subject at Russian universities starting this fall. Atheism will be taught more intensively at party training cen ters and in special courses for teachers, doctors and journalists. Already start ed are competitions for the best atheist plays, films, paintings and photographs (one entry shows believers gloating over a collection plate). To counter act the emotional appeal of church feasts, the party will give greater emphasis to Russia's secular festivals -such as Cattle Breeder Day and Corn Grower Day, now celebrated joyously throughout the Ukraine...
...first, Ford officials tried to per suade the Free Press not to run the pictures. When that failed, they began to look for the culprit. Since the Mus tang's license plate was visible in one of the photos, the investigation did not take long. The Mustang's driver was none other than the nephew of Ford Chairman Henry Ford II, Walter Buhl ("Buhlie") Ford III, at 20 already something of a legendary cut up around Grosse Pointe, the baronial suburb east of Detroit...
Wall-to-Wall Wealth. Johnson was at his political best with a stump-stirring speech at a $100-a-plate roast beef dinner for 3,500 in the Fontainebleau Hotel. He paid tribute to Kennedy, vowed "to continue the work he began." He said he intends to prove "that Government can be progressive without being radical, prudent without being reactionary." In an atmosphere of wall-to-wall wealth, he announced that he would send his message on poverty to Congress this week. Then he turned to civil rights...
...drilling in Morrow County, bringing the number issued to nearly 1,000. In 450 attempts so far, oilmen have brought in 162 producing wells. Derricks have sprung up in clusters on front lawns, in narrow alleys and in vegetable gardens; one producing well occupies what was once home plate on the baseball field at the Edison Junior High School (the team will play all its games away this season). Says Theodore DeBrosse, veteran petroleum geologist for the state: "There is more drilling in this area than anywhere east of the Mississippi...