Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...duty, he has been on the job for more than four years, and since June 1964 has served as commander of all U.S. forces in Viet Nam. Still, the timing of the announcement, less than a week after Senator Robert Kennedy had entered the presidential race on an antiwar platform, lent more than a little credence to speculation that the President might be contemplating a change in Viet Nam policy-or else had taken the opportunity to disarm critics by giving the impression that he might. Westmoreland, the chief instrument of past policy, could hardly be expected to implement...
Last week, the Harvard Policy Committee approved its "Report on the Houses," which was essentially a compendium of the perennial complaints about the House system. It also contained suggestions for improving the Houses, but the HPC emphasized that these were not definite proposals, merely a "platform for discussion." As such, the report means little, but it should remind the Administration that the present House system is not universally popular...
Miss Kivisild, whose election was described by The Tech as an "upset," campaigned on a platform demanding the ouster of the "closed group of the chosen few" who had formerly dominated student government. She said she objected to a government "designed to give those with a political bent practice for their future career...
...rejected the League of Nations, many concerned citizens felt a need for an organization that might help to balance the country's growing isolationism. Thus 50 years ago, a group of editors and scholars founded the Foreign Policy Association. In publications and meetings they provided a platform for foreign-affairs and communications specialists who later helped organize World Affairs Councils in cities throughout the nation...
That agreement on platform planks, hammered out in Rockefeller's Manhattan apartment* while the convention roiled in Chicago, was not so offensive to Nixon ideologically as it was politically. In 1964, they tangled again, not so much over principle as over party loyalty. Nixon supported the ticket and worked for it, later attacked Rockefeller as a "divider" and "spoilsport" for doing neither...