Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possession. The letter's contents have not been made public, but the New York Daily News's perceptive Washington columnist, Ted Lewis, quoting "hearsay" reports, said that it criticized the "extremist" tone of Goldwater's campaign and the ultra-conservative planks written into the platform by his supporters. However, Goldwater aides claim the letter is so vague that their man is still unable to figure out just what Romney was trying...
...virtue of his 600,000-vote third-term victory and potent coattail strength, is the early-form favorite for the 1968 G.O.P. presidential nomination. Rockefeller, a big upset winner in New York, is eager to at least play a prominent role in choosing the candidate and fashioning the platform...
...Instead, the use of Eisenhower as a vehicle for Johnson's policy will undercut any Republican in the next two years who proposes a Vietnam policy more oriented toward negotiations than the Administration's. And should any Republican attempt to run against the President in 1968 on a peace platform, Johnson will undoubtedly attack him by quoting Eisenhower...
...Platform for Action. Nor could Illinois' only L.B.J. neophyte, Gale Schis-ler, fend off the challenge of able G.O.P. State Legislator Tom Railsback. Ironically, the Illinois Democratic machine's only major victory was the election of Adlai Stevenson III, father-like son of the late Democratic presidential nominee, as state treasurer, by a hair-thin 30,758 votes?despite the fact that the party bosses had asked Stevenson to run for the post only because Senator Paul Douglas thought that the Stevenson name would help him in his own race...
...Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform, Astronaut Aldrin shot pictures of the earth and the stars for 2 hours and 28 minutes-longer than anyone has spent continuously outside his craft in space...