Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, his father had been hanged, but he did not like to put that in his application. He puzzled over it for quite a while. He finally wrote, 'My father was 65 when he died. He came to his end while participating in a public function when the platform gave...
...drill down through as much as 300 ft. of water and 16,000 ft. of mud and shale. A single successful well costs as much as $3,000,000, about six times the cost of a similar dry-land operation. The lease on a giant three-legged drilling platform, such as Kerr-McGee's Kermac 54, now jack-legged this week into 180 ft. of water 80 miles from shore, runs to $8,000 a day. Oil companies so far have invested $4.25 billion in offshore operations, recovered $1.75 billion of it. Under such conditions, all but a handful...
...Faces. Insisted Miller: "His vice presidential platform favored sit-in demonstrations. His state platform called for 'enforcement of laws designed to protect private property from physical occupation.' His national platform supported federal aid for education. His state platform opposed 'the entry of the Federal Government in the general field of public education.' His national platform favored school desegregation. His state platform pledged 'to protect the decisions of the people of local school districts in the operation and control of their schools...
Afterward, there was a question and answer session. How would he go about defeating Lyndon Johnson? "I've got to get the nomination first." Would he support Goldwater if the Arizonan were nominated? "I will support any Republican nominated on a good Republican platform, and he will win." Would he withdraw if he lost the New Hampshire primary? "No, sir. I'm going...
...fussed with all week, the Pope took the journey at his own pace. Once he stopped to greet a delegation of convicts from Regina Coeli prison, another time to bless a crowd gathered in the village of Acilia. At the windswept airport the Pope shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist Pietro Nenni, Italy's Vice Premier, conspicuously refused to cross himself) before taking his seat in the Vatican-chartered Alitalia...