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...portly veteran of the Southern Negro movement, traveled from state to state for the Party all summer, speaking to Democratic caucuses and committees wherever possible. Between them they secured support pledges of varying intensity from eleven states. But hurried schedules and limited energies permitted the two only to scratch the surface...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...portly veteran of the Southern Negro movement, traveled from state to state for the Party all summer, speaking to Democratic caucuses and committees wherever possible. Between them they secured support pledges of varying intensity from eleven states. But hurried schedules and limited energies permitted the two only to scratch the surface...

Author: By Curt Hessler, | Title: MFDP Ventures Out of Miss. | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...Scott complained that he was "out of practice." He had not sailed in topflight competition since 1956. On the other hand, that just might be a blessing. "Sailing a 12-meter is jolly well different than sailing a dinghy," he said. "So I'd have to start from scratch, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing: Guarding Against Indolence | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...outsider is Bobby that he won't be able to cast a ballot in New York this fall, therefore has decided not to vote at all. "I could vote in Massachusetts," he said, "but as a resident of New York I wouldn't want to do that." Scratch one vote for Senator Teddy Kennedy, another for Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Unity, of Sorts | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...Valley, where the film was shot, really looks like another world. Actor Mantee, a former allround athlete from U.C.L.A., really looks like an astronaut. And the monkey really looks like a monkey. He looks, in fact, like the first cinemape of modern times who didn't learn to scratch himself at the Actors Studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marooned on the Red Planet | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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