Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students at the University of Sydney, and the attitude of many thousands of people in this country, about Goldwater. To us, Goldwater looms as a definite threat to world peace; heaven help us if he is ever elected to the presidency. He is a bigoted man, standing on a platform that would have gone well a century...
...dare move. He sat paralyzed with fear. Only when the train slowed for his stop at Kings Highway station did he get up. And then, before the car doors opened, the gang began beating him, knocking off and splintering his glasses. They finally left him on the station platform with his wallet, containing $97, missing, his trousers nearly ripped off, his shirt covered with blood, his face a pulpy, puffy mass of blood and bruises...
...other hand, Nelson Rockefeller happily recalled that he had helped draft the very 1960 G.O.P. platform that Ike liked so much. Cried Rockefeller: "I fall within the framework of Eisenhower's description. I don't think Senator Goldwater's views are compatible." Workers for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., having thrown their support to Rocky in the California primary, quickly chimed in that Lodge, too, fitted Ike's qualifications...
...third key conventioneer-Platform Chairman Melvin Laird, 41, a Congressman from Wisconsin-is balding and a bit on the pudgy side. But that makes little difference; his role will be performed mostly off-camera...
...election year, the chance to honor a big-catch politician with a degree often lets a university push forward a favorite son, influence the vote, win cubits of reflected prestige, or give a statesman a platform. President Johnson inaugurated the kudos season by accepting a Doctor of Civil Laws degree at the University of Michigan, then got an LL.D. from Texas (see below). But if politics promised to color the commencements, honors were also going as usual to artists, inventors and scholars. Last week...