Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some chemistry is going on here," exulted Richard Nixon before 450 cheer ing Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner in Arlington last week. "Something new and exciting is happening in Virginia." At which Nixon turned to the principal chemist, A. (for Abner) Linwood Hoiton, 42, a Harvard-trained lawyer with Spencer Tracy (circa 1940) looks and Lyndonesque vitality...
From 1902 to 1917, Stieglitz spent more time fighting for photography as art than actually photographing. "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry could, without trouble, learn to get something or other in a sensitive plate, and this is what the public wanted--no work and lots of fun," he complained. He formed a group of artistic photographers aptly named "Photo-Secession," and set out to win for photography the recognition he desired. Steiglitz demanded that members be not only outstanding artists but also faithful adherents to his ideological crusade. His weapon was his quarterly magazine, Camera Work, over which he presided...
...restaurants. The thudding propaganda in the shows is one reason; the food and drink are another. A daiquiri runs $1.10, and the once-famed Cuban rum approaches the undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
Both major candidates have been touring the grass roots. Macapagal invaded northern Luzon-Marcos' stronghold-in his air-conditioned Ford Galaxie with license plate No. 1, and was in good form, averaging 20 handshakes a minute. Marcos is putting on a more colorful show, appearing bedecked with a lei made of sampaguitas, the national flower, and singing duets with his beauteous wife, Imelda, before jeeping off to the next barrio...
...while, as he labored against the Chicago Cubs last week, the 29,139 fans in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium wondered whether baseball's top pitcher (record: 21-7) still had his stuff. His first pitch hit the dirt three feet in front of home plate, and for two full innings he threw nothing but curve balls-struggling to loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began to buzz as one after another the Cubs marched up to the plate, took...