Word: barbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters-some silly, some tragic-come into the Berkeley Barb, East Village Other, Los Angeles Free Press or any of 15 underground newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Their language is raw, often misspelled, jangling with obscenities. A few are transparent put-ons. Most, though, are hippies' cries for help on medical matters. Dropping out of "straight" society provides no immunity to mankind's injuries and germs. Like everyone else, the members of the long-haired generation are often ignorant and afraid...
...staff of Cal's student clinic, where he sometimes treats toes that have been dislocated when their owners leaped from barricades, Schoenfeld answered so many unhip hippies' questions that he eventually became convinced that something ought to be done. He half-jokingly suggested to Berkeley Barb Editor Max Scherr that his paper should print a medical column. "You write it," Scherr replied, and in March 1967 Schoenfeld...
Several Cabinet wives bring to the capital experience in community service, and in one case a considerable firsthand political background. Lenore Romney has campaigned effectively for her husband George both in Michigan and nationally; Barb Laird, on the other hand, says candidly: "I doubt if many political wives know much more about politics than I do, which is nothing." Both Mrs. Shultz, whose husband has been dean of the University of Chicago graduate business school, and Mrs. Clifford Hardin, married to the incoming Agriculture Secretary and ex-chancellor of the University of Nebraska, are used to the incessant social round...
More Than Time. In Round 2, Harriman abandoned his earlier geniality and matched Thuy, barb for barb. Particularly pointed was his use of a 1956 admission by Hanoi's Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap: "We executed too many honest people. Terror became far too widespread. Torture came to be regarded as a normal practice." Harriman also sought to sound an upbeat note by declaring that he had been "struck by some similarities in our respective positions," notably expressions of hope for an independent and peaceful South Viet Nam. But the North Vietnamese swiftly rejected the overture, declaring: "In fact...
...more restrained. On hand were only a few French protocol officials, newsmen and the new U.S. ambassador, Sargent Shriver, who was hurriedly sworn in earlier in the week. Where Thuy's arrival statement was characteristically windy and polemical, Harriman's was crisp and noncommittal. His only barb, in fact, was aimed not at the North Vietnamese but at the French. He reminded them that the first Paris conference he attended helped set up the Marshall Plan, "20 years ago almost to the day." Added Harriman: "I have many warm memories of those days, and of the close cooperation...