Word: weather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gilligan was actually a pretty poignant figure. A red-haired new politician in what had to be a Brooks Brothers pin stripe, he was dog-tired. Standing outside the Celtics' dressing room, he said he was "just praying for good weather and 50,000 college kids on election day." For Gilligan and many others, new politics-or massive student and suburbanite participation--was no mere idealistic indulgence. Ohio's unions, which lavishly sponsored his successful primary run against Sen. Frank Lausche this spring, have ignored his banner since Chicago. Gilligan likes black people and dislikes Dean Rusk, a bit much...
...peculiarly uncooperative subject for an interview. Most of the time he is friendly enough; the trouble is, he volunteers little beyond "The Speech." The best part of the assignment, says Williams, "is the outdoor rallies: the signs, the shouting from both sides and this week, the fine fall weather. Wallace, his supporters and his hecklers, turn one another on. That's when a reporter gets a chance to talk to both backers and opponents. That's when he gets real clues to the depth of feeling behind the Wallace movement...
...fascinated with flight. At Ohio State, he busied himself with ROTC In 1928 he obtained a reserve commission and left for a National Guard summer camp. His classmates tore off to Los Angeles for weekends, but LeMay in his singleminded fashion often hung back to vivisect engines and study weather charts and navigation. With his accumulating skill as pilot, mechanic and navigator, he was summoned after seven years in fighters to fly the first of the Army's Flying Fortresses...
Bargain Rates. The only commercials they saw were two minutes of spots sandwiched between a soap opera and the evening weather report. In one, a pajama-clad comedian leaped from bed and dashed after his passion: garlic-flavored Boursin cheese. In another, three puppies tumbled out of a sweater worn by a curvy brunette, ostensibly proving that her "Tricot Bel" pullover snapped right back .into shape. Other commercials touted the virtues of Virlux butter, Schneider TV sets and Regilait powdered milk...
...like the weather: everyone knows him and has an opinion of him. "Wayne Morse?" muttered a brawny teamster over lunch in East Portland yesterday. "I'm tired of that old man." A Reed College girl said, "With his moustache, gray hair and lecture-like speeches, he reminds me of a friendly old uncle--something like uncle...