Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop watch, it was time to end the qualifying heat and prepare for the marathon ahead. As odds-on favorite for the Republican presidental nomination, he had to give serious consideration to the choice of a running mate. He also set out to polish position papers for the G.O.P. Platform Committee, and write an acceptance speech. For his retreat, he borrowed a white bungalow at California's Newport Beach that resounded all week to pounding waves from the West...
...last week persuaded former Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, an old adviser to Jack and Bob Kennedy, to become his campaign manager. O'Brien will first try to perk up the Vice President's flagging campaign, then attempt to influence convention arrangements-particularly those of the platform committee-to make Humphrey appear a strong candidate in his own right. His working assumption will be that Humphrey's most dangerous opponent is not McCarthy or a Republican, but the L.B.J. brand...
...cannot take black separatism too seriously. Unlike some Negro publications, it has not banned the word Negro, but uses it interchangeably with the more fashionable "black." A recent editorial tried good-humoredly to put the matter in perspective. It described an after-dinner speaker who began: "Mr. Chairman, distinguished platform guests and my fellow Afro-Americans, Negro, Black, Colored, Soul Brothers and Sisters ..." To some militants, including some members of the staff, Ebony is too smugly middleclass. To which Executive Editor Herbert Nipson replies: "Some people expect Ebony, because it is a Negro magazine, to print propaganda for every black...
Amidst the confusion of contradictory Gallup and Harris polls, and with a totally uncontroversial platform in the works, the Grand Old Party is preparing to open its 1968 convention in Miami Beach, Florida...
Meanwhile, the platform committee, under the direction of Sen. Everett Dirksen, is drafting what one member admitted would be a document cloaked in ambiguity, vagueness and turgid prose. Platforms tend to be like that: in 1932, for example, both parties had almost identical platforms, although their candidates differed markedly on the issues...