Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perky Style. Rockefeller's long, prepared speeches in more formal settings often underwhelm his audiences, but his peppy little talks followed by question periods show a perky platform style. "Believe me," he told his University of Kansas audience of 15,000, "it's a shame this isn't the convention. I may be late getting in, but I'm going to make up for lost time." He renewed his endorsement of a Selective Service lottery. He demanded "positive action to bring an honorable peace in Viet Nam." When one student asked if Rockefeller, as President, would...
...other five candidates for president of the Stanford University student body were taking noisy positions on the CIA, sit-ins and such. Not Vicky Drake. When they asked her what her platform was, the 21-year-old blonde breathed: "38-22-36." And that was about the size of it. A third-year language student, Vicky works between academic quarters as a topless dancer at various clubs around the San Francisco Bay area. For her campaign, she simply passed out posters of her nude self with the legend "Vicky for Pres." It was obviously the right approach for Stanford...
...Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong and N.L.F. would...
...Roger D. Branigin took his native Hoosierism and made it his platform. On scores of billboards across the state, in blue with white letters, the Governor's advertisements proclaim, "Vote Indiana, Vote Branigin...
...policy-maker has yet formulated any coherent negotiating platform for the coming talks. This may be a bargaining tactic, aimed at leaving U.S. diplomats elbow room at the negotiating table. But it seems more likely that U.S. policy-makers have simply failed to confront the central issues. Poor planning took its propaganda toll last month as the Johnson Administration, failing to consider the implications of its rhetoric, promised to meet "anywhere, anyplace" with Communist negotiators, and then reneged on the promise...