Word: telethons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon went all out. He built up an organization of 75,000 volunteers, traveled more than 50,000 miles, visited 40 of the state's 58 counties, wound up with a four-hour telethon on which he answered questions on 146 subjects. Last week Nixon won his party's nomination for Governor of California. But it was a shadowed victory...
Winding up his primary campaign, Nixon plans to crisscross the state for giant rallies and late-hour major speeches. He has scheduled a "Win with Nixon" telethon (9 p.m. to 1 a.m.) in which he will answer questions called in by telephoning viewers. Most of all, his strategy depends on ignoring Shell-thereby not making the hard-Shell right any madder-and concentrating his fire on the shilly-shally administration of Pat Brown...
...through, but he wasn't kidding. Hollywood was more closely involved with the 1960 election than with any since the politically conscious 1930s. On the Republican side, Actor George Murphy was often called on to warm up audiences for Nixon, and Nixon's final four-hour telethon involved answering questions fed to him by Lloyd Nolan and Robert Young. On the Democratic side, Sinatra's Clan (mercifully kept out of public sight most of the time) had a brocade-vested interest in the election because of Actor Peter Lawford's marriage to John Kennedy...
...Black-bereted militia drill in Havana's parks, empty lots, and along the seaside Malecón drive; children's yellow-shirted militia go from door to door begging contributions for "arms and planes"; the government TV station puts on a nightly street-corner "defense" telethon for arms funds...