Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Soprano Joan Sutherland plus Janet Blair, Polly Bergen, et al...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...speech to a New Hampshire women's club that Democrat John Kennedy had "a very, very soft record on Communism." She attached a qualifier that only added injury to insult: "This man is not a Communist-at least I don't think he is a Communist." Al though an accomplished and popular hostess, Doloris had a disconcerting habit of introducing one guest to another by saying: "He's a good American...
Attitude & Altitude. The results al ready show. By Christmas vacation in 1960, the doolie class of 772 had been reduced by 123, including 75 who quit because they abhorred the academy. By Christmas vacation in 1961, the doolie class of 802 had lost 61 men, including only 32 who left out of distaste...
Maximum Penalty. The liveliest of the longer pieces deals with Prohibition, and John Bull has a field day with the U.S. v. John Barleycorn. Proffered bribes to a Prohibition agent ran as high as $300,000 a week; Al Capone's liquor take was $75 million a year. At the outset, the Department of Justice had no plans for handling Volstead Act violations; after the act had been in force for one month, the first open court date in New York State was three years...