Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard senior is directing the Massachusetts arm of Dissenting Democrats--a new anti-war group trying to get a peace plank in the 1968 Democratic platform...
...situation had it not been held. Huntington thinks that the election was a fair one commenting that "we had as much at stake in a fair election as the Vietnamese did." The U.S. government, he said, was prepared to accept any result in the election, in which the "peace platform" Dzu-Chieu ticket received a surprising second-place 17.2 per cent. But he notes that the South Vietnamese army would probably have attempted a coup had the first and second place results been reversed...
Style is more relevant than content in this stage of politics, Huntington thinks. He attributes peace candidate Dzu's strong 800.000-vote showing to a rabble-rousing political style similar to Ky's, which impressed the voters more than his platform...
...history of The Streetchoir began a few Fridays ago at an Adams House mixer. Crowds at mixers are not generally known for their intelligence and concentration, but that Friday, as fact and fuure legend will bear out, 90 per cent of the crowd stopped dancing and stood around the platform to watch Streetchoir's galvanizing first public performance. The tidal wave of applause that followed their last set rivalled the electrical intensity of Michael Tschudin's powerful organ solos...
...Audio-Visuel France has developed a system that promises much simpler shopping. It is called Le Miroir Magique. The shopper is first draped in black up to her neck, then perched in a chair on a platform facing a special non-silvered mirror designed for rear-projection. By pushing a button, she can then flash slides of a store's collection, each dress in her own size, onto the mirror beneath the reflection of her face, discovering in seconds whether or not the particular color, neckline and shape suits her. A decisive woman could "try on" as many...