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...historic moment, although it was hard to tell from the behavior of those involved. House Democrats cheered and mockingly waved their handkerchiefs as their Republican colleagues paraded up the center aisle of the chamber and out the door. When the G.O.P. members passed by, Democrats laughed and shook their hands...
During his two-day stay, White behaved much as politicians will in media- intensive situations: he shook hands with the men, posed for pictures, gave speeches and signed autographs. He gave a cattle brand in the shape of Texas to Colonel Roy Kimerling, commander of the joint task force participating in the games. Surrounded by ten Army guards, White even inspected a municipal project, a new well dug by his Guardsmen...
...been stifled by traditional lines of authority. No doubt the enormous baby-boom generation would have effected changes anyway. But the war brought with it gusts of wild energy. "Freedom," said the lyric, "is just another word for nothing left to lose." The war, and the protest against it, shook loose forces in American life and gave them a style and prestige they might not otherwise have had. Suddenly, politics came dancing with a loony phosphorescence. There was a certain giddy proximity of death in the time--rock stars like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix went tumbling down from drug...
...Society work, or at least work better than it ultimately did, with program after program collapsing under the burden of unfocused - goals, unbridled spending and unbelievable bureaucratic bloat. He might have been succeeded by, say, Robert Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along the lines drawn years ago between hawk and dove, Johnson and Kennedy. Says George McGovern, who ran on an antiwar platform in the 1972 presidential election and was buried...
Springfield shook Harvard out of its stupor by taking a 5-3 lead 3-53 into the second period...