Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Smyrna on Jan. 20, 1906, the son of Socrates, a well-to-do tobacco dealer, he witnessed as a youth the savage Turkish invasion of 1922, during which an uncle was lynched in the town square. His family fled to mainland Greece. At 17, Aristotle embarked for Argentina with $60 in his pocket, to seek his fortune...
...doubts about the legendary efficiency of Richard Nixon's campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
Chavez, Munoz and several other Mexican-Americans from the Delano area then began to lay the groundwork for the National Farm Workers' Union. Beginning in the Mexican-American community in the small farm town of Delano, they established a credit union and a food cooperative, and began making plans for further community services. Then, in 1965, the Filipino grape pickers in the Delano area spontaneously went out on strike. The National Farm Workers were unprepared for the move, with only $52.50 in the union treasury, but voted anyway to join the Filipinos in a massive walkout of some 5000 grape...
...time he had left town. Nixon had admitted the things that angry students had yelled all along. Kids don't like him, he sadly realized, and black people probably thought he didn't like them. The unexpected admission and the apparent sincerity were disconcerting. Students in the audience, scrambling to preserve the bogeyman image, come up with tortuous explanations. All this humble business was a big show, they said. Nixon's just trying to fool...
...just themselves to the whole country by means of a magical mystery tour, a cross-country trip in a pyschedelic magic bus with loudspeakers on top, a sleeping bag for screwing, acid in the portable fridge, and lots of merry pranks along the way: "... in Barry Goldwater's home town ... they put a streamer on the bus reading 'A VOTE FOR BARRY IS A VOTE FOR FUN.' And they put American flags up on the bus and Casady drove the bus backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, non-plussed." Of course...