Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound Democrats. Lawsuits are being planned in some states to break loose votes now bound by the unit rule. For the convention, there is talk of challenging delegations from perhaps 14 states on grounds that McCarthy people were improperly deprived of seats. There is also the possibility of a platform fight over Viet...
Robert Kennedy nearly got his clothes torn off in Indiana and California. Middle-aged matrons in the Mountain States and suburbs of the South swoon whenever Ronald Reagan mounts the platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...
Keith Moon, a short man, was on a raised platform with his drums, which have orange psychedelic sides and look expensive, the significance of which fact will appear by and by. John Entwistle, one of the more accomplished rock musicians around, who plays bass guitar and French horn and has been known to still a frenzied unruly crowd with a 20 minute horn solo, stood to the left of the stage, making it clear that he, for one, was not going to prance around. Funny how bass guitarists are generally more sober than their partners on the other instruments. Maybe...
...needs to get on the ballot. "If we make it in Massachusetts, we'll make it in all the states," he said from behind the heart-high, bulletproof shield that protects him during speeches. Howling protesters tried their best. Once shouts of "Sieg Heil!" drove him off the platform...
...have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...