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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post-Advocate, he became friendly with Nixon in 1946, when he first ran for the House against Jerry Voorhis. Since then, Klein's journalistic career has been interrupted no fewer than five times by the leaves he has taken to work as a Nixon campaign aide. Between the various campaigns, he rose over the years to become editor of the Copley chain's resolutely Republican San Diego Union (circ...
...Sing Sing: Superb management, which is ready to treat you like a human being so long as you act like one; beautiful view of the broad Hudson; free buses to various points of interest within the walls; each cell outfitted with a wardrobe, small table and chair; the meals abundant, varied and good in the American style; three different kinds of bread, all excellent...
...Some people in various countries have thought that persistence was simply the result of Dr. Salazar's personal obstinacy," said the new Premier. "But the truth is that Portugal's position could not have been otherwise." To the cheers of the hawkish National Assembly, Caetano pledged to continue the seven-year anti-insurgency wars in Angola, Portuguese Guinea and Mozambique, which last year soaked up some 40% of the country's $817 million budget...
...other hand, by completely failing to realize any of the possibilities suggested by the various scenes, Shalako does propel the mind to tangential daydreaming. I got hung up on how amazingly little screen presence Connery has. A colleague emerged from the picture meditating that someone ought to make a decent picture about mountain-climbers. Another friend who shared this minor unpleasantness with us tried to figure out which part of the USA most resembled the locations in Spain where the film was shot. Yet another surmised, correctly I think, that the reason Shalako is an "outdoor" picture is that...
Another problem that has emerged in the recent campaigns is the extreme volatility of voters. Three consecutive polls in the last ten days of July showed radically different estimates of the respective strengths of Nixon and Rockfeller against various Democratic opponents. Gallup and Harris, two of the three involved, issued a joint statement explaining the discrepancy on the grounds of a shifting political scene, high voter volatility, and sampling errors. They added that, "each [poll] was an accurate reflection of opinion at the time it was taken...