Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could hardly have cooked up such a promotional coup. The idea would have seemed too stagy or cloyingly obvious: the candidate's perky, pretty 20-year-old daughter Julie becoming engaged to the 20-year-old grandson of Dwight Eisenhower on the very eve of the presidential primary race. They would then campaign hand-in-hand toward November victory and a White House wedding...
...Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic on the Negro experience in America. He is also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester at the University of California at Berkeley...
High Stakes. With only six weeks remaining before the voters go to the polls, the Democratic dustup leaves Campaign Planners pretty much last in the presidential image-making race. DDB had had a chance to air only a few commercials. The new Humphrey-Muskie group, which will run its first TV ad this week-fully a month after Chicago-faces competition that is already in high gear...
...developed precisely as a good many current dreams predict: a detritosphere, made up of atomized waste products and the debris of innumerable satellite disasters, smothers the globe. The sun has been stifled, the sea polluted. The earth itself is encrusted with a layer of rubble. The human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel...
More alarming was the reaction of Jesse Unruh, powerful Speaker of the California Legislature, and a frequently-mentioned opponent of Reagan in the 1970 gubernatorial race. Unruh had been Reagan's primary foe in the 1967 fight over the firing of Clark Kerr, and many professors had counted on his support here...