Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek advice. Without background, it must be terrifying to become a centimillionaire at 37. But let me allay your anxieties at once. Being very rich is mostly what raucous people call a gas. C. Wright Mills, one of the egghead sociologists, was near the mark when he said: "If the rich are not happy, it is because none of us is happy." Sophie Tucker got it right the first time. "I've been rich and I've been poor," she said. "Rich is better...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* It Started in Naples. The tiny Mediterranean island of Capri is background for this 1960 romantic comedy, with Sophia Loren at her most briosa, Vittorio De Sica at his most simpatico, and Clark Gable at his usual most...
...weeks ago. Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne. They are also spending more and more time talking about real problems and gradually letting the demand for a bombing halt fade into the background. The U.S., on the other hand, is trying to demonstrate flexibility; it told the North Vietnamese last week that if they stopped trying to force Communism on South Viet Nam, U.S. troops would be withdrawn without question...
...pistol he used to kill Bobby Kennedy, but he still had the weapon. On the other hand, reasonable laws might have prevented Lee Harvey Oswald from committing what Lyndon Johnson called "murder by mail order"; Oswald would also probably have been refused a gun permit because of his background...
...effective, gun-control legislation should be rational and uniform. Otherwise, as New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes complained last week, states with strong laws will invariably be "subverted" by those with weak ones. Michigan residents who want to avoid buying a pistol permit?and having their background checked?simply drive across the Ohio border to Toledo, where guns are sold even at the candy counter of a sleazy hamburger stand. Massachusetts police in a ten-year study traced 87% of the guns used in local crimes to purchases in neighboring states where no waiting period or background investigation was required...