Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crackling fire on the hearth. The man who paced back and forth as he spoke over TV to his fellow Californians was obviously used to being before the cameras. He smiled intermittently, carefully turned his head from left to right, delivered his lines with feeling. At 54, Ronald Reagan, who has ap peared in 50 movies, emceed a General Electric-sponsored dramatic series on TV and lately acted as host on Death Valley Days, was playing an unaccustomed role. To no one's surprise, he announced that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor...
Encouraged by George Murphy's successful bid for the Senate-which proved that the public does not hold an acting career against a budding politician-Reagan (rhymes with pagan) has already traveled 10,000 miles and made 150 speeches in his bid for the G.O.P. nomination. By sheer activity, he has thus made himself the front runner among four G.O.P. hopefuls-even though he is a staunch conservative in a state where Republicanism has traditionally tended toward the progressive side. Reagan's political reputation dates from the 1964 presidential campaign when-only four years after becoming a Democrat...
President Pusey resigns in protest as he returns from a holiday weekend to find Mrs. Bunting ensconced in the President's mansion. Ronald Reagan, Republican candidate for governor of California, proposes to raze 40 blocks of central Watts and replace them with Disneyland. "Those people just want to be happy," he says...
...tung is reportedly near death after suffering a major heart attack. Polls show Ronald Reagan's lead in the California gubernatorial race declining. Reagan grows a beard, loses 40 pounds, and begins a series of ten-minute addresses at grand openings of Forest Lawn Cemetary branches. The Fellows of Harvard College and their wives attend a tea given by Mrs. Bunting at her new home. Soon after, Mrs. Helen Gurley Brown, author of "Sex and the Single Girl," is appointed first mistress of the tenth House, Ingraham House. Mrs. Brown is a non-academic. As nights become warmer and rumors...
...School of Music assault the Yard and herd all freshmen into waiting trucks with all their belongings except their pants. The girls put on the pants. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay uncovers an eternal spring of fresh water by striking his rod against the Empire State Building. Ronald Reagan engages California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in a series of debates. Reagan, clasping his shawl tight to his shoulders, persists in calling Brown "Senator Douglas" and talking about his boyhood in Illinois...