Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most people?including, it sometimes seemed, the vice-presidential candidate himself?lost sight of Agnew's strengths during the campaign. A relatively progressive, pragmatic Governor, he has shown skill in administration and a taste for innovation. His proposal for uniform national-welfare payments certainly deserves consideration as a practical means of stopping the flow of rural poor, white as well as black, to big-city slums. While he is appallingly insensitive and callous, few can deny Agnew's personal decency and quiet sense of humor. Most independent observers agree that the New York Times made much out of little...
Everyone who watched television that afternoon knows that Purdue lost the ball game. But it lost more. It lost Temple Drake. As the happy Minnesota crowd filed out of the park, Temple Drake slipped into the Band dressing room. She got out of her glitteringly oppressive majorette's uniform--hated thing!--and pulled on a Dashiki she'd stuck into her suitcase. Then she went to the bus station and bought a ticket for South Bend...
...initiator of all this, Tom Hayden, is a recruiting-poster image of an American. Handsome and a rangy 6-ft. 3-in., Hayden wears the black uniform of his irregulars and drives around Phu Vinh in his Jeep, a Swedish-K submachine gun at his side and a .45-cal. pistol on his hip. He was a champion discus thrower at Long Beach College, later worked as an aerospace systems analyst and as a television actor (The Rounders, The Young Marrieds...
...Known as "the Hippie Squad," the plainclothesmen mingle with the hippies in their hangouts, usually grow their hair long, and have beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program, the kids don't seem to mind having the fuzz around, except when they bust a pot or acid party...
Hoffman was not totally in favor of the Smith-Carlos protest. 'I thought it was too theatrical," Hoffman said. "I had hoped for a more uniform and widespread action which would have been well explained in a statement signed by both whites and blacks...