Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooms. A dozen women, fed up with the male politicos who had increased municipal debt while letting the town decay, formed their own "United for Walsenburg" party, drafted a stern austerity platform calling for prompt payment of the town's debts and no salaries for the mayor and town council. The women pored over civics textbooks, stormed into meetings of the all-male city council, journeyed to Denver to seek advice from Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols. Though Walsenburg had never before elected a woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited...
...accused of being too easy on the Eisenhower Administration, showed an unaccustomed, election-year militancy. "I think it is rather tragic," he said, "that in the twilight of his career, the President, upon his return from Newport, should set out all the items that are embraced within the Democratic platform. I wish he had exercised the same kind of leadership during the past seven years...
HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE : Businessman Charles H. Percy, chairman of the convention's Platform Committee...
...wording of the G.O.P. platform's defense plank-a compromise between the Treaty of Fifth Avenue and Ike's insistence that U.S. defenses are more than adequate-gave the President a dignified exit: the plank gently recognized a need for new looks at defense programs, citing "swift technological change" and new "warning signs of Soviet aggressiveness" as the reasons...
Died. Salvatore Ferragamo, 62, style-setting Italian shoemaker for women and the originator of the wedge heel, platform sole and nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...