Word: adame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlem, a bus driver remarked last week, "It's fine with me if Adam stays out of Washington, because then we're not going to pay our taxes. No taxation without representation." But one Harlem Democrat saw Adam's vacuum differently: "He's been away from the people too long. He should come back and fight like a man. There are plenty of other good men around...
Once he was Harlem's favorite leader, preacher and rogue. They winked at his womanizing and junketeering, packed the Abyssinian Baptist Church every Sunday to hear his baritone homilies. But seven months after the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat him because of abuses of office, Adam Clayton Powell is beginning to become just a flamboyant memory to the 431,000 people he no longer represents...
Midst marital ruins stood: A. & P. Heir Huntingdon Hartford, 56, whose third wife Diane, 25, has recently been seeing the sights with Singer Bobby Darin and now wants a permanent split plus $4,000 weekly alimony; Bimini Beachboy Adam Clayton Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second...
...most Christian faiths, a couple is wed until death do them part. But a Mormon marriage performed in the temple "seals" a couple for "time and eternity." The reason is that Mormons view every wedding as performed in the image of the first marriage, in which Adam and Eve were wed by God be fore they were banished from the Garden of Eden and made subject to death...
...President "a wild mad dog, an outlaw from Texas." He told Washington audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell me to shoot my enemy, I might just shoot Lady Bird." Echoing Brown, Harlem's defrocked Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, still in Bimini after seven months, did little to help cool off things by announcing in the midst of Detroit's troubles that such riots were "a necessary phase of the black revolution-necessary...