Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through six downtown blocks of Gary, Ind., blocking the city's major north-south artery for nearly four hours. It was not a riot but a rip-roaring victory celebration; their chant was not "Black power!" but "We beat the machine!" Through the nonincendiary power of the ballot box, Gary's Negroes had ousted the corruption-ridden regime of Mayor A. Martin Katz (TIME, April 29, 1966) and nominated one of their own race as the Democratic mayoral candidate in next November's general election. With their support, Richard Hatcher, 33, a bright, articulate lawyer and city...
...perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping Assembly into one that talks back and can be recalcitrant...
...Dictionary, a lexicon of Bierce's scorn for mankind and all its institutions -now expanded by material that the editors say has not been anthologized before-stands today not only as the distillation of Bierce's thought but as epigrammatic misanthropy bordering on genius (see box...
Long's bill, however, offers no solution to the problem. It aids the one set of candidates who don't need help: presidential nominees. The bill enables voters to contribute one tax dollar to a presidential campaign fund by checking a box on their income tax form. The money would be divided between the national committees of the major parties. A third party could share the funds if it polled more than five million votes in the previous presidential ballot...
Apart from good lawyers and proven box-office appeal, Carson had some borrowed leverage working for him-the threat of new competition from the ABC network. Theoretically, ABC's Joey Bishop Show, which started last week opposite Tonight, was bound to chip away at Carson's audience. After a week's run, it looks as if neither NBC nor Carson has anything serious to worry about...