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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...make money, the debt-ridden Democratic National Committee still $9,000,000 in hock from the 1968 campaign-is springing for $75,000 worth of television commercials, radio spots and newspaper ads to appeal for contributions. The rule of thumb is that $1 worth of advertising brings a return of $1.80 (though Senator George McGovern got $475,000 for his $70,000 investment in an anti-war TV appeal). The basic theme: "You don't have to wait until 1972 to vote against Richard Nixon." Things could get a bit catchier-perhaps DEMOCRATS GIVE YOUR LAND SEX APPEAL...
...Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, 48, an able, articulate campaigner, faces a long uphill battle to thwart Hubert Humphrey's return to the Senate. They are competing for the seat Eugene McCarthy abandoned. Both have minor primary opposition...
Washington's intelligence community describes the recent activity as "wriggles" in Cuba. The wriggles appear to date from Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's trip to Havana last fall and a return visit to Moscow by Fidel Castro's brother Raul last spring. The Soviets agreed to refurbish the Cuban military with everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane...
...first got his legislature to approve a bill that would allow the state to build the road and then be repaid by the pipeline consortium. Not wishing to risk stockholder suits, the consortium turned down the idea. In order to reintroduce his plan. Miller asked the legislature to return to Juneau early this month for a special session. But when the legislators discovered that the Governor had no new alternatives for them to debate, they stayed home...
...years. Migratory birds?lesser Canada geese, eider ducks, American pintails, whistling swans, Brant geese?must time their breeding to the day. If winter is unusually long, a whole species may achieve zero population growth because it lacks time to hatch and rear its young before the ice begins to return in late August...