Word: shaked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARIBBEAN. At night torches blaze in the breeze, couples congregate at thatched-roof tables, while brown-skinned babes in tighter-than-skin pants gyrate to the hot blasts and calypso beat of bongo drums and steel bands. There is no place to dance, but the itchy-footed shake or shuffle outside on the sidewalk. It is, perhaps, better not to mention the food, but there is a $3 minimum after...
Guards stood outside the locked door of Room 1202-"The Delegate Control Center"-where trusted Scranton aides worked diligently by phone to shake out new delegate strength. At their disposal were three separate and expertly cross-referenced filing systems, including boxes of index cards, fat black notebooks and large manila envelopes, all packed with vital information on each of 1,308 delegates, 1,308 alternates, and dozens of key politicians. Inherited from Nelson Rockefeller, the files contained names, ages, financial background, marital status, business contacts, clubs, fraternities, presidential preference, and the names of friends or associates who might...
...eminently fair shake you gave Goldwater in the cover story shows me that, unlike your competitors, you are resisting infestation by sentimental young leftists who do not stop at slander to promote self-intoxication with the morally superficial sensationalism which must fill the vacuum of their historical ignorance...
Sounding the Trumpet. Next day Johnson was in Ohio, still nonpoliticking. In Cleveland he sent his Secret Service escorts into nervous tremors during the ride from the airport by stopping again and again to plunge into the crowds to shake hands. At the Public Auditorium, Johnson delivered a peach of a noncampaign speech to a convention of the Communications Workers of America. "And when the roll is called, and when the trumpet sounds, and when the strong of heart and the stout of spirit stand up to be counted," thundered Johnson, "I have not the slightest doubt where this union...
...Frederick Barghoorn in the Soviet Union on spy charges. According to this account, the CIA had solemnly denied to Kennedy that Barghoorn was a CIA agent, but when the professor returned he told the President that he had indeed been spying for the CIA. Angered, Kennedy threatened a wholesale shake-up of the intelligence agency. Later the CIA got wind of the plot against Kennedy-but did not warn him because the agency wanted to eliminate what it feared to be a threat to its own existence...