Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several other radical-leaning San Francisco businessmen and intellectuals. Ramparts pays the going rate for contributions, supports a staff of 26, many of whom are political activists as well as ardent journalists. Managing Editor Robert Scheer ran for Congress in the Democratic primary last year on a New Left platform calling for unilateral withdrawal from Viet Nam. He lost, but he gave Incumbent Jeffery Cohelan a rough fight. Keating himself ran unsuccessfully in a congressional primary in San Mateo County...
...critical chasm between him and the Governors. But, he added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that I ran on a platform that contained my commitments." As a result of the gripe session, he said, he would see to it that his administrators would "review with their own staffs these various programs and see if it is possible in any way to relieve the states of any of the burdens of administration...
...fact designed to open the door that locks science off from the rest of the world. Holton recalls telling some students about a science fiction story he enjoyed. "They were surprised to find out that a scientist is not just a person in a lab or on a platform. What is sad is that they had to find out by accident...
...personal blame for the 1964 convention's failure to adopt a strong civil rights plank-but at the same time damned him as an indifferent campaigner. He recalled how the G.O.P. standard-bearer had admitted to him that he, Goldwater, "read only a few sections of the platform and didn't know what amendments were being offered"-incredible as that seems. He also exonerated Goldwater of making a "deal" with Southern segregationists because "you were obviously leaving many vital things almost entirely to others...
...Seawright's machines respond to one another and to the presence of people. When Searcher beams light from its circling radarlike dishes, Scanner's flailing arm picks up the beacon with its light sensors; then Captive, impelled by a motor, skids and twitches about on a mirrored platform. "The machines process information," says Seawright, 30, an Ole Miss grad who instructs at Manhattan's Electronic Music Center (run by Princeton and Columbia). "Their cells and sensors collect information on light and sound, and they behave accordingly. My aim is to produce a kind of patterned personality. Just...