Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-page memo detailing passages that Jackie found objectionable. Bobby met with Manchester at his Senate office in Washington and at his Virginia home the following month to discuss changes. Kennedy agents told Look that they had to approve the articles, but Look rejected the suggested changes. Through the autumn, Kennedy advisers met frequently, zeroing in finally on two major objections: the book was still too anti-Johnson, and much of the material from Manchester's interview with Jackie was mawkishly handled. Copies of the Look galleys were sent to the White House, where Bill Moyers read them...
...ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth: "My daughter is marrying an idiot." Autumn leaves begin dappling the script; Preston and Martin, grey-wigged, pat the familiar bed farewell...
POLITICS. The advances have been enormous: the potential is even bigger. The number of Negroes running for elective office has risen 25% to 30% in the Democratic Party over the past two years alone. This autumn, a record 210 Negroes of both parties are trying for seats in state legislatures, and hundreds more for other local offices. The number of Negroes in the U.S. Congress has risen from two in 1954 to six now; altogether, 17 are running for Congress this fall (eleven Republicans and six Democrats). Massachusetts' Republican Attorney General Edward Brooke is the first Negro since Reconstruction...
...company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar to play folk songs on, and later the use of the family Pontiac (but not the Cadillac) to drive girl friends to the "sock hops" that Shrine staged on autumn Friday nights after the football games...
...Question of Price. Washington seems delighted with the slight autumn chill. "The trend," insisted Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr, "is definitely toward a rate of growth which the economy can sustain." Added Chief Presidential Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley: "The economy today is pretty much what I like...