Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kudos for the story on the Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin [July 21]. Although never known for its adaptability to new ideas, the Midwest can be proud of Dan Fitzpatrick's equally corrosive successor. Mauldin gives fair promise of adhering to Joseph Pulitzer's platform: "Always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties...
...Ghana, Nkrumah was privately cordial to Hare's overtures, but as soon as Hare left, Nkrumah took the platform to declare that Ghana "would almost certainly be forced to leave the sterling area to safeguard our trading position" if Britain joined...
...mended since, along with the other scars of Suez. Retiring to his country house in pastoral Wilthsare he buried himself in his memors* and, say intimates, began to feel that thereby he deepened his insight on many issues (but not, his memoirs suggest, on Suez). Hankering for a platform again, Eden, now 64, last week finally accepted his earldom from Queen Elizabeth...
...Thailand's King Bhumibol, Somdej Phra Ariyawongsalcottayarn Phra Sangharaja, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...
...stands that the N.C.C. has actually taken on such matters sound more like the work of political platform writers than of revolutionaries: against segregation; against "the evils, the violence and the violation of human rights by communist and other tyrannies"; in favor of international aid and trade, collective bargaining, the United Nations, freedom of speech, and religious instruction outside the public schools...