Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more a sin to be born a white-skinned Southerner than it is for a Negro to be born black; to be called names as a result of our origin is an insult...
...long after an advance text of Hubert Humphrey's Viet Nam speech reached the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson spent half an hour on the telephone with Richard Nixon. The White House, naturally, did not discuss the conversation, but it is a safe assumption that the Democratic President and the Republican presidential candidate wasted little time talking about wheat sales or the World Series. By the time Humphrey phoned the White House, shortly after delivering the speech, the reaction from Johnson's end of the line was, in the words of an aide to the Vice President...
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Humphrey and Nixon have both promised to sell America's crack Phantom bombers to Israel if elected to the White House. The pledge is undoubtedly a good vote-getter, but it is also disastrous foreign policy...
...only page of this parody which elicited a sustained laugh from me wasn't supposed to: it was Life's first full-page ad, boasting a two-inch deep, white-on-red Life logo, topped by the words, "A good ribbing?" Down at the bottom, it says, "Let it never be said that Life couldn't appreciate a good ribbing. If that were true, we would never have taken this ad. But now that you've had a few laughs, it's only fair that you also have the opportunity to enjoy the real McCoy...
...know, is entitled "Miscellany" and consists of a captioned photograph, usually of some cuddly animal in some clever pose. The Lampoon parodied it nicely--offering an anguished little girl, left hand over her eyes, right hand holding a gun pointing down at a dead white cat which lies in the street in its own blood. The whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot...