Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warms up (and probably accounts for) the crowd; balloons and confetti add to the carnival atmosphere. All this hoopla and ballyhoo can't alter the hard fact that Humphrey, and not Nixon, is the one who really cares. I recently saw a sign which sums up the whole thing: Nixon Is Plastic; Humphrey Has Heart...
...wanderings, Onassis is only a superficial sophisticate. His humor has a peasant strain. One of his favorite jokes describes "the noisiest thing in the world?two skeletons making love on a tin roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some...
Monster in the Woods. There is only one thing that worries the Nixon people now-the imponderable Wallace Factor. "You look at this Wallace thing," says one close adviser. "It's like sitting by the campfire knowing there's a monster out there in the woods. But you don't know how big it is." The nagging anxiety is that there may be hidden Wallace supporters who are ashamed enough of their vote to shy away from pollsters, but who are not ashamed enough to shy away from the polling booths. "We can't be sure...
There is no such thing as a spontaneous campaign appearance. Every candidate has his advance men, the harried unsung experts who go from town to town to make as sure as humanly possible that the crowds will be out, the schedule smooth, the publicity favorable. Here is TIME Correspondent Ken Danforth's portrait of one of them...
...Thus his goal in seeking power for his union, he says, is not only to help the schools do "a hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement and the labor movement by affecting...