Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impoverished turpentine distiller from Gumville, he has voted frequently for Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. His constituents were not unsympathetic 18 months ago when he proposed that the U.S. "flatten Hanoi and let world opinion go fly a kite." In 1948 he cried that Harry Truman's anti-lynching bill would "lynch the Constitution," and as late as 1956 was defining N.A.A.C.P as "the National Association for the Advancement of Communist Propaganda...
...MOVIE NIGHT SPECIAL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Truman Capote's TV version of the 1944 film Laura, starring Jackie's sister, Lee Bouvier Radziwill. Repeat...
...Playboy before allowing him to read the magazine. He was bored stiff bv the routine of his job, especially Sunday-morning "tune-in duty," when he monitored church services on earth He sometimes complained of the lonely burden he bore as ruler of the universe. "The buck, as Mr. Truman said, stops here, ' God wrote. "And I mean it really stops here. I would give my omniscience to be able to pass just one decision on to higher authority...
...polls build band wagons? The evidence thus far suggests that they may do just the reverse-as in 1948, when Harry Truman urged the public to "prove the polls wrong." If polls really sway voters, argues Gallup, Dewey would have won. But polls do present other problems. They give an edge to rich candidates, who can afford more and deeper polls than less affluent candidates. Old-line party chieftains worry that the polls have robbed them of some of their previous powers to dictate nominations-though few people would complain about that...
...equally clear that Columbia's academic rebels are so concerned with the failures of an intransigent system that they themselves are intransigently determined to prevent the university's restoration at any cost. "The events of Tuesday night," said Columbia Provost David Truman, "brought home to a lot of faculty and students just what we're up against with the hard core of the demonstrators...