Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama's eight districts, the G.O.P. put up candidates in six, won five. The victors: W. Jack ("Thank God for Goldwater") Edwards, William L. Dickinson, Glenn Andrews, John H. Buchanan, and James D. Martin, who in 1962 had come with-in an ace of upsetting U.S. Senator Lister Hill. All are against civil rights laws. Elsewhere, the Democratic domi nance of the South was undiminished. Florida's congressional...
...grueling 8,000-mile campaign tour, the President stopped off in his opponent's home town to go to church, made a stop-and-go trip through downtown Phoenix, and did a little of his own preaching along the way. "Let's go to church and thank the good Lord for the U.S., for sunshine and freedom in the world," he told a Phoenix street crowd. "Love thy neighbor!" In Reno, he struck out at Goldwater, drawling that "we here in the West aren't about to turn in our sterling silver American heritage for a plastic...
...close of the meeting, Salinger beamed a grin out over the sea of glum faces and said cheerily, "Let me thank you for the opportunity of joining you tonight. We've had a spirited discussion, haven...
...Fees. Pastor Karsten had his facts entirely straight. Every major U.S. military installation in South Korea is ringed by villages occupied by camp followers who make their living on G.I. largesse. As one inhabitant of a "G.I. town" put it: "We benefit much from the G.I.s stationed here, but thank God they are not Christians. If they were, we would starve...
When Evangelist Billy Graham, 45, marched on Boston with his "Crusade for Christ" last month, Richard Cardinal Gushing, 69, then in Rome, issued a statement welcoming him. Last week in Boston, Billy called on the cardinal to thank him, and the meeting turned into a regular love feast. His Eminence asked Graham how he managed to look so fit. "I trust in the Lord and take vitamins," quipped Graham. Then he added: "I feel I have known you a long time. The police in Boston think you are the greatest." "You can see why I've never come within...