Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections for state and local offices. The amendment drew the ardent support of a bipartisan group of Northern liberals led by the bill's floor leader, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart. But when the bill was ready for the Senate floor, the anti-poll-tax proposal ran into the opposition of the very men most instrumental in drawing up the original voting bill-Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. They argued that since poll taxes in federal elections had been abolished by constitutional amendment, abolishing them in state...
...told, the damage in Washington ran to $12.5 million, including $2,500,000 in school buildings and $3,500,000 in Boeing Co. facilities, one of which was the Renton plant...
...viewed the talks as a bit of international skulduggery in which his country would be used as "bait" for a fishing expedition by the big fellows. He wasn't biting. The sudden shift came as no surprise, since Snookie had just returned from Indonesia, where he ran into Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Peking itself has no desire to enter into negotiations over Viet Nam at the moment, as Chou himself made crystal clear last week. "Obviously the purpose of a Cambodian conference is not really to ensure neutrality and territorial integrity for Cambodia," sneered Chou, "but to induce...
...doses of psychic energizers, the thing to do is to supply the brain's metabolic factory with another chemical, 5-HTP, from which it can manufacture more serotonin. This two-drug treatment seemed to work in some cases, but still not as well as expected. Evidently, the reasoning ran, the 5-HTP was not being utilized efficiently...
...news media, publicity spread faster than cracks in a Massachusetts highway. Time ran a half-page feature beginning "Stretching its wheelbase, spreading its strack, strapping its concrete hands across the land, the automobile inches humanity back and back...." Life supported the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...