Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled back to watch Rusk's televised tes timony, expecting the Secretary to make the announcement. Instead, a news bulletin from Prague was handed to an NBC reporter in the hearing room moments before the White House message reached Rusk. It was passed to Rusk and then to Platform Chairman Hale Boggs, who read it to the committee. Back at the White House, Johnson told Rostow: "Our plans have been overtaken by events...
...operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres that led to the present civil war. Among his more vivid memories, Grossman recalled walking along the platform at the Kano railroad station, "a handkerchief clasped to my nose to dull the lingering stench of more than a hundred Ibo corpses." For him, too, it was all a depressing experience...
...alliance of hippies, yippies, antiwar militants, unhappy liberals and far-out radicals. Goals vary from outright disruption of the convention proceedings to a ribald mockery of the electoral system. The yippies (members of the Youth International Party) plan to nominate a 220-Ib. pig, Pigasus, for President, on a platform of garbage-"just like the platform of all the other parties." Groups led by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam are altogether more serious. Says Coordinator Rennie Davis: "We want to focus attention...
From the party's Southern conservative wing emerged Lester Maddox, who waited until last week to join the field. In his nationally televised announcement, the former fried-chicken entrepreneur paraphrased the George Wallace platform, extolling private enterprise and attacking crime, big government, racial violence and the Supreme Court. The Georgian will likely cost Humphrey no more than a scattering of votes in the South. Since Maddox regards the three other Democratic candidates as socialists or worse, some Southerners speculated that he was running so that, when rejected, he would have an argument for bolting the party and supporting Wallace...
They are also planning a strong assault on the platform committee in order to get an unequivocal antiwar plank calling for an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam and a repudiation of past U.S. war policy. The committee will conduct morning-to-midnight hearings for six days this week in an effort to write the party doctrine...