Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should fulfill its commitments" with a sentiment more congenial to doves: "We have tried to do maybe too much in the world." Treading gingerly but using backroom muscle on all factions of the party, Humphrey will hold meetings, inviting Democrats of all persuasions to help shape the platform. To counter charges that he was stacking the convention, the Vice President's forces agreed to cede some delegates to McCarthy - provided that their loss involved no danger to Humphrey's nomination...
...woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...
...from sidewalk electioneering in a rocking chair to reading poetry before local Rotary Clubs. Maine's citizens, however, preferred that he keep his hell raising at home. The result: Merrill lost to State Senator Horace Hildreth Jr., 36, son of a former Maine Governor who ran on a platform of drug and gun control, by nearly 18,000 votes...
...there is. "We are not trying to protect these boys," says the Rev. Harold R. Fray Jr., a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...
...lead a national reconciliation. Were Humphrey the choice, McCarthy suggested last week, he could only support him if the Vice President altered his position on the war. No matter who the nominee is, however, McCarthy intends to exert all the pressure of the party's dissidents on the platform committee in hopes of writing in strong planks on peace and racial justice. If he fails, McCarthy hinted with characteristic delicacy, he might join-but not lead-a third-party movement in the general election...