Word: battler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...
...will of God." Before World War I, the U.S. Episcopalians, like the Anglicans, still called birth control "demoralizing." In October 1966, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church declared that "we affirm and support programs of population control." Even the Roman Catholic Church, until recently a staunch battler against liberalized birth control and divorce laws wherever they turned up, has begun to soft-pedal its opposition. Last year such liberalized laws have been passed by the legislature in New York and Massachusetts where they had previously been blocked by Catholic pressure...
...Navy Captain Archie Kuntze, 46, is a bemedaled battler and an able administrator. As U.S. supply chief in South Viet Nam last year, he handled the suffocating inundation of U.S. men and materiel with such pervasive authority that he was dubbed - and happilly proclaimed himself - "the American mayor of Saigon." Last week, like many an American mayor before him, Kuntze (pronounced Koont-zee) found himself on public trial for all the semiprivate sins that high office invites...
...first time, it seemed, since the flood, there were real tears in the old battler's eyes, as a schoolgirl presented a bouquet of 80 roses on the parade route outside Jerusalem. Then his car inched slowly forward, as a crowd of some 50,000 gave a rousing birthday cheer to Israel's ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion. "I am only 20," B-G said wistfully. "Four times 20." Though most Israelis were feeling sentimental about their nation's grand old man, Premier Levi Eshkol was not. Having feuded with Ben-Gurion almost since...
...that would be his headquarters for the next fight, for it was here that he expected the Communists to resume the attack. Kong Le and his headquarters looked worn, scruffy, far from impressive. But he stood almost alone in Laos last week as the West's only effective battler against Communism. With only 3,000 ill-paid, ill-trained troops supplied only infrequently by airdrops, Kong Le's prospects seemed poor. His spirit did not. "Whether we win or lose," he said, "I'm afraid there is not much choice except to fight until we can fight...