Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suburbs of Washington, D.C., got six or seven inches, and Baltimore got nearly four. But the news that morning befitted a soggy newspaper. The Democrats of Maryland had chosen a backlash candidate -- a sixtime loser -- run for governor in November. George P. Mahoney had only one plank in his platform -- rocksolid opposition to any open-housing law. And Mahoney had somehow eked out a 154-vote victory over liberal Carlton Sickles...
Mahoney, Sickles, and Finan were the main contenders. There were five others though, including Clarence Miles -- another open-housing opponant -- and Andrew J. Easter -- who wore a Santa Claus beard and an Uncle Sam suit, and whose platform called for "making everyday Christmas." Easter, who runs in every election he can, didn't get too many votes. Clarence Miles polled about 30,000. Finan got 134,000. And Mahoney got 146,000 -- 1600 more than Sickles...
...related development, syndicated columnist Max Lerner criticized the club yesterday in his column, saying that it was the "death-wish of democracy" which not only allowed Rockwell to speak but also gave him a public platform...
...Guards was Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, and he loosed his youthful minions in public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms and red arm bands. At a prearranged signal, several hundred Guards rushed in front of the stand to greet Mao. Mao accepted an arm band and pinned it on, as did his newly designated...
...ease up, she replied: "I am the protagonist of women who have nothing to laugh at." She met and fell in love with Sexologist Havelock Ellis, but Ellis was already married. In 1922, she married 3-In-One Oil Company Owner J. Noah H. Slee, after planking down a platform of specific demands to assure her independence: she would continue to call herself Margaret Sanger, she and Slee would occupy separate apartments in the same house, they would even telephone each other to arrange such trifles as having dinner together. Not much of a marriage by conventional standards...