Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford (see following story) had challenged the floor leadership of Charlie Halleck-on the grounds that old Charlie just did not fit the forward-looking image the party needed. Backing Ford was a group of rebels, including Wisconsin's Mel Laird, chairman of the G.O.P. Convention's Platform Committee at San Francisco, who went after the chairmanship of the Republican House caucus. It was a bitter fight, complicated by the fact that Conservatives Ford and Laird are anathema to some liberal Republicans. In a fit of pique, New York's John Lindsay actually backed Halleck. But Ford...
...history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper. But now at last the lethargic land is due for its share of grandeur: France is planning to turn it into a platform for Charles de Gaulle's vaunted, if somewhat stunted, rocket and space program...
Once again Walton and Mrs. Kennedy went over the elaborate workbooks prepared by the architects, and now they began traveling to meet each of the men they were considering for the job. Louis Kahn, whom Walton remembers as "leprechaunish," drew a plan of a platform stretching across Storrow Drive, with the library to be built atop the platform; Mies van der Rohe suggested a similar concept. Bunshaft, whose Beinecke at Yale was the only libray any of the architects submitted in their workbooks, was considered carefully. (When Walton and Mrs. Kennedy visited Yale to talk with Paul Rudolph they found...
...British Labor Party's official song is more auld hat than Auld Lang Syne. At the party's annual conference in Brighton last week, the leaders as usual linked hands on the platform and (to the tune known in the U.S. as Maryland, My Maryland) chanted the quaint lyrics...
...much more optimistic vein, however, Saloma outlined a program by which the GOP could recapture the presidency by 1972. By developing a moderate platform and nominating more effective candidates, he said, the party could successfully appeal to the basically pro-Republican suburban, upper-income voters who form as ever-increasing proportion of the population...