Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls. They swamped the organization: Charley Buckley's once-mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt, Wagner won handily...
Last Wednesday, resplendent in a mocha-colored sports coat, Chairman Adam Powell of the House's Education and Labor Committee arose on the floor to propose calling up the Administration's last-gasp bill. The customs of the House allow committee chairmen to try to bring bills directly to the floor on "Calendar Wednesday" without going through the roadblocking Rules Committee. But up stood Louisiana's conservative F. Edward Hebert, a Catholic, to challenge Powell's attempt to put the bill before the House. Rayburn promptly ordered a roll-call vote on the issue, commented sourly...
...Julian Huxley ("He's a swinger; every time I read him, I say, 'You're right, you're right' "), had a population problem of his own. Whacked with a paternity suit by Costume Designer Patricia Manley, who in July bore a son she named Adam Matthew Sahl, the 34-year-old comedian equably announced, "I'm not admitting or denying anything. Let the court decide." Responded Miss Manley, reminiscing about the European tour she says she made with Sahl last fall: "Then I got pregnant. Mort doesn't feel those are the right...
...ADAM ROTTER...
Facing up to the horrendous choice between New York City's three Democratic candidates for mayor, the Pied Piper of Harlem, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, bestowed his anxiously awaited blessing on Organization Man Arthur Levitt. "New York City," prophesied the apocalyptic Adam, "is absolutely finished if affable, personable, charming, likeable, ineffective, weak Bob Wagner is returned to office...