Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Party politics, as Disraeli defined the term in 1864, is "organized opinion." It can also be the opposite, as U.S. Republicans demonstrated at their national convention 100 years later, when an open free-for-all over the party platform irreconcilably widened the breach between the G.O.P.'s moderate and Goldwater factions. To avoid another schism in 1968, when they will need all the unity they can muster, some Republicans suggest holding an informal platform-drafting convention a year earlier, when the atmosphere should be more conducive to deliberation...
...Master's many chores, Dunn seems particularly intigued with the job of finding new tutors. But again he hasn't had time to explore just how many Quincy needs, and in what fields. "Master Bullitt hasn't handed me a platform," Dunn says, "but he's suggested the job will be great fun and I'm inclined to think that's true...
...parroting the anti-war line of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, thus adding to "a discordant symphony of dissension and disagreement that can immobilize this country." Despite Morse's warning that "it's going to be difficult to elect any Democrat who runs on a war platform," Duncan is supported by Neuberger and most other leading Democrats...
...Hodges over a segregationist, I. Beverly Lake. Appealing to urban voters, organized labor, Negroes, bankers, and manufacturers, Sanford soft-pedaled the race issue and emphasized his proposals to increase expenditures in education and to attract new industry into the state. His victory was built upon a doubly unfavorable platform of increasing taxes and facing race relations with "massive intelligence, not massive resistance...
...time Ellis Island will be further enriched. Johnson foresees more recreational facilities, a fortress-shaped restaurant, a pyramidal viewing platform. But the first task, Johnson explains, is to "stabilize the ruins, preserve the nostalgia." Secretary Udall, for one, was delighted. Said he: "Here we see what art and architecture and history can do when we bring them all together...