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...Senator J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, formally severed his ties to the Democratic Party, announced that he was joining the Republican Party and would campaign for Goldwater. When Barry arrived at Greenville, S.C., in his chartered jet, Strom was waiting at the ramp to embrace him, a gold elephant in one lapel and a Goldwater button in the other. Barry was delighted. "If a man like Thurmond can do it," he said, "I see no reason why Democrats by the tens of thousands in the South can't do the same...
...pair of clasped hands appeared from the wings, followed by the arms. Then the dancers were onstage, silhouetted against the dimly lit blue back drop. Gliding slowly upward across a ramp, they moved forward, swayed back, moved forward again. At last they reached the top and stood there as though gazing serenely at a sunlit land...
GENERAL ELECTRIC. Seated in six auditoriums, 1,428 people revolve around a talking-dummy, four-act show that divulges what electricity has wrought in the home. Then, up an escalator to the stars, down a corkscrew ramp to see nuclear fusion. Snappy from start to finish...
...this unnecessary. First came the carhop, with a four-course meal at the rolling down of a window, and the motel, followed by the drive-in movie and the curbside teller's cage. Last month Macy's announced plans for a department store flanked by a spiral ramp to enable customers to park within a few yards of the counter they want to visit (TIME, April 10). And last week San Francisco saw the opening of a $29 million, 1,200-room hotel where the guest can register behind the wheel and drive to his room...
...this newest of the world's 61 Hiltons, guests register at the garage entrance, get their room keys by pneumatic tube from the main lobby, and zoom up the spiral ramp and start looking for their room number when the floor beneath the car matches the color...