Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Majestic Opportunism." The committee then spent two days in bitter debate before adopting, 21 to 13, Maryland Republican Charles Mathias' substitute proposal, which would exempt individual homeowners and owners of dwellings with four units or less. A principal feature of the substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result...
...still another public bid for understanding, the President saw to it last week that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright, one of his most bitter adversaries on the Viet Nam issue, was invited to a White House reception for visiting Austrian businessmen. When Fulbright came up to shake hands, the President beamed warmly, chatted cheerfully with the chairman for a few minutes while cameramen snapped away, then steered Fulbright into his private office for a few more minutes of talk. The White House later leaked broad hints that the two had resolved their pent-up differences-though only...
...Massachusetts Democratic Convention endorsed former Governor Endicott ("Chub") Peabody for Senator and former State Attorney General Edward McCormack for Governor in the September primary. Peabody, who won the convention but lost the primary two years ago, while he was still Governor, now faces a bitter duel with Boston's Mayor John Collins, who angrily claimed that he had been "jobbed" by party leaders. McCormack, nephew of U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, faces an easier race against former J.F.K. Aide Kenneth O'Donnell. Chief gainers from the Democratic infighting: Attorney General Edward Brooke, all-but-certain G.O.P. nominee...
...felt "as if the unseen millions of the Milky Way were to flow in a sparkling river before my eyes." He predicted "a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable." To some, it seems that the perilous reign has begun-not through Mitchell's bitter buttons but through their enormously more powerful relative, lysergic acid diethylamide...
John E. Powers, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court and former president of the Massachusetts Senate, was Collins' unsuccessful opponent in the bitter mayoralty contest of 1959. Collins' slogan then was "Stop Power Politics...