Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been transformed into grimy liquor stores, Western Auto discount stores, small grocery stores. The center of town is surround by gas stations. And in the dead center of the main square is a deserted and forlorn bandstand, its white wooden sides smudged with dirt and exhaust, its green platform sagging at the middle...
During the next half hour, debate raged heavy, Kazin several times almost lost control of the microphone as would-be speakers--most of whom appeared to be supporting the Worker-Student Alliance position--grabbed for it. In front of the platform, several people chanted...
...Thieu's move was mixed. Mrs. Kieu Mong Thu, a militant Buddhist member of the National Assembly, said that "President Thieu should have thought of this measure sooner." Supporters of Lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential elections who campaigned on a peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees who came South after the 1954 armistice...
During his space walk on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission, Astronaut Russell Schweickart shot photos of Astronaut David Scott, who was standing in an open hatch of the command module (Gumdrop). Scott, at the same time, was taking pictures of Schweickart standing on the platform of the docked lunar module (Spider). Inside Gumdrop, Astronaut James McDivitt was busy photographing Schweickart. "Now we're all taking pictures of everybody taking pictures," Schweickart commented. The photographic frenzy continued unabated for the remainder of the mission. Thus last week the world was treated to pictures as varied and excellent...
...proposal is the logical and unavoidable climax of the last three years of California politics. When Ronald Reagan ran for governor in 1966, he wedged a strong anti-riot plank into his campaign platform. The lurid scenes from the '66 Berkeley riots were still in the voters' minds, and Reagan made tidy political gains by emitting harsh formulas for stopping the student rioters. Reagan seemed to have overestimated the California conservatism, however; a poll taken two days after his election showed that some 65 per cent of California adults--the middle class, conservative, socially-concerned adults who had elected Reagan...