Word: arce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lady . . .? Now called Freedom, she has stood for 97 years as the nation seesawed between war and peace, Republicans and Democrats. Most tourists think she is an Indian, possibly Pocahontas or Chief Sitting Bull. She has also been accused of being Joan of Arc, Carry Nation, and Balboa discovering the Pacific. But most of those who bother to take note of her at all are almost sure to ask the question: "Why is that Indian wearing those Roman robes...
Less splashy but longer established are Mel Evans and George deKay, contractors who dream up nonbook ideas, hire authors and editors, and sell the product to publishing houses. The merchandise consists mostly of such night-table cannonballs as Fateful Moments, an anthology of traumata from Joan of Arc to Helen Keller, and the Great Treasury of American Writing, warmed-over heart warmers compiled by Louis Untermeyer...
...when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey CBS reporter persuaded Chicago Manufacturer William Rentschler, chairman of "Thank You Ike Day," to wear a microphone under...
...Kishi was still determined to sweat out final ratification of the treaty. The Socialists mustered their forces to demand a Diet recess, which would stall off ratification. Demonstrators seethed around the Diet building. Thousands of students attended the funeral of their "Joan of Arc," Michiko Kamba, and a flower-bedecked altar was set up at the spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi...
...Edison, Equity was in session. Poised, ponytailed children from The Sound of Music, clutching lap dogs, mingled with Negroes from Raisin in the Sun and Orientals from A Majority of One. Sari-draped Vivien Leigh held court, apparently trying to play a curious mixture of Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Equity's George Nicolau recalled the 1919 strike: "Let your answer be now as it was then-Equity!" But hardly anyone remembered the old marching hymn. Shrunken in size. Equity is now "just a cut above the horseshoers" (as one labor organizer cracked), and for years has been quick...