Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haunted by the memory of 1960, Richard Nixon long ago determined to stop at some point in the 1968 campaign for a final stock taking. What was being done wrong? What could be done better? Last week his advisers from all over the country converged on Key Biscayne, Fla., for such an inventory and came up with a startling conclusion: Nothing was wrong, and hardly anything could be done better...
There were earlier adversities. Bobby Kennedy's death cast a pall over everything. It certainly did over me. I couldn't campaign for weeks. Then I got started and had to stop because I was ill. I was out of action for twelve days [with the flu, in July]. Then along came the convention-the two conventions, one inside the Amphitheater, one outside. What could have been worse for millions of people to be watching while trying to make up their minds whom to vote for? We went out of there destroyed. It's not a wonder...
MANY of Boston's hippies spend their nights outside the Sub Shop on Charles St., selling oregano to teeny-boppers from Marblehead who think they're getting marijuana. The middle-aged women with grocery bags who stop at the Brigham's next door in the afternoons stay off the streets after seven, and even the patrolman who occasionally strolls by looks stoned. Most nights, then, the hippies have the street to themselves, and the same ones usually show all the time, but they rarely know each other's names...
...EVENING early last week Marcos Munoz and four fellow California farmworkers stood in front of DeMoulas's Supermarket in Lawrence, Mass., asking patrons to shop elsewhere. DeMoulas had twice broken a promise to Munoz that he would stop carrying grapes for the duration of the national grape boycott, so the farmworkers decided to picket the store until DeMoulas signed a written agreement...
...mimeographed leaflets explaining the connection between grapes on the shelves in Lawrence and exploitation of farm labor in Delano, California. But the shoppers seemed unimpressed. Most of theim ignored the leaflets or grabbed at them perfunctorily to avoid an eye to eye confrontation with the picketers. Those who did stop were generally confused. They weren't going to buy grapes anyway, so why shouldn't they shop there? Wasn't this a secondary boycott, and wasn't that illegal? When the store closed at ten o'clock, the picketers tallied the two, three, or five shoppers they had each turned...