Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proclamations, and clandestine broadcasts, the fantastic S.A.O. platform shapes up like this: 1) all Algerians will remain French on French soil, and partition into separate Moslem and European states is unthinkable; 2) the Moslem population will get equal status?some time in the future; 3) in the new France, the S.A.O. will rip out the "Communist and Christian-Progressivist cancer that has undermined the state"; 4) the S.A.O. will eagerly join the French army as the "antiCommunist spearhead of the nation"; 5) having won France, the S.A.O. will then defend Western civilization through nationalism, which is "France's permanent vocation?...
...McCormack: "I'm a progressive who believes that the road to progress is, in moments of contest, reasonable compromise. You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity." McCormack proved his point with consummate skill in three grueling turns as chairman of the Democratic Platform Committee (in 1944, 1952 and 1956). At each convention, he managed to control and placate, if not to elate, both the flaming Northern liberals and the truculent Southern conservatives on the explosive issue of civil rights...
...turned up for 78% of the roll-call votes in the last session, compared with Wilbur Mills's 99%). Back home he saw less and less of Orval Faubus. A year and a half ago, when Alford ran success fully for a second term on his same segregation platform, a Faubus lieutenant backed his opponent...
National politics fills October with the sounds of rallies. President Kennedy stumps the country on his "Peace and Prosperity" platform... In Boston, a microgeneticist is arrested for publishing an "obscene" paper on paramecia reproduction. Harry Levin testifies in her favor, but Judge Lewis Goldberg finds the paper "obscene, indecent, and impure." "The author's descriptive powers are truly impressive, and she rises to great literary heights describing the life cycle of the creatures," Goldberg says. "And then she descends into the filthy gutter." Mary I. Bunting is fined $2,000, and President Pusey announces "with regret" that she will...
...slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command of the language. And ah, the phrasing...