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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrators trudged around the outside of the nearly-completed facility in the pouring rain, looking for places to climb the fence. They spread blankets across the barbed wire on the top of the fences, and then jumped into the arms of police who hustled them away to waiting schoolbuses...
...title track, Gordon's band, the Wildcats, lays down a tight boogie rhythm and Gordon wails the praises of a lively nightclub on the edge of town. No one has heard the likes of his squeal in the choruses since Buddy Holly crooned "Peggy Sue" at the top of his throat...
...conflict may prefigure an election like that of 1948, in which a President runs against Congress. (Truman, however, attacked a Republican-led legislature.) "I don't like this talk about campaigning against Congress," a Democratic congressional leader told a top White House staffer. Replied the staffer: "The President may find that Congress is running against...
...move on Capitol Hill angered the White House. After conferring with top Carter aides, Democratic National Committee Chairman John C. White charged that the coalition was dividing the party. Said he: "The continued activities of people like the five Congressmen are going to almost surely hand over the presidency on a silver platter to John Connally or Ronald Reagan...
Just as always he reads and writes all day, here in this house on the top floor, drinks quarts of milk, smokes cigarettes. He hates for me to play my jazz records, but sometimes I do late at night and then he dances around, off the beat, like a bear...