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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When 1967 stories linked Missouri Senator Edward V. Long with unsavory labor leaders, reporters asked Long what the exposés might mean to his career. Long replied: "I see the implications. Don't think I was born yesterday." Long was born July 18, 1908, and last week Missouri Democrats took his Senate seat away...
...service is cheap-only $25 per 1,000 pieces, v. $42 per 1,000 pieces for the U.S. mails. And it is fast. While the U.S. Post Office spaces delivery of third-class mail over several days, the independent postmen guarantee 100% delivery on the date specified by each client. Says Bill Overstreet, sales promotion manager of J.C. Penney's Tulsa stores: "A while ago, some of our advertising was delivered by the Post Office ten days before our sale was to begin, and customers started coming in expecting the bargains that were in the circulars. Now, with...
Meanwhile, a pictorial record of what was allegedly the real thing is on display in Revolution, a cinéma vérité documentary made on the San Francisco scene last summer. There is acid rock by such groups as the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Mother Earth. There are shots of long-haired nymphets looking stoned, solemn interviews with cops, doctors, and headshrinkers about the dangers of drugs, and interminable expositions of hippie philosophy by unbathed gurus. Apparently for the benefit of grind-house voyeurs, there is also some totally nude choreography-filtered through eye-blasting psychedelic lighting-danced...
...gets a modest jump on the Big Three, who will not begin unwrapping their new wheels until later this month. Why the rush? Maybe because A.M.C. has a lot to show this year. "We've got a whole line of cars to sell now," says A.M.C. President William V. Luneburg. "This company will never again be known as a one-product outfit...
...name of Gov. George Romney of Michigan was placed into nomination by the chairman of the Nevada delegation, amid great cheering from an audience which was noticeably unenthusiastic about Agnew. There was also a move underway to nominate Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York, but the Mayor himself reportedly squelched it. Lindsay, in fact, delivered a seconding speech for Agnew...