Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this day, the gut issues are discussed. Woody Jenkins of Louisiana reminds the audience of the four great American protections: "the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box. If you ever lose the cartridge box, the other three won't mean a thing." He recalls that the Japanese decided not to invade the West Coast in World War II because they knew the futility of doing battle with an armed citizenry...
...took two years for me to design that model," Arman Mohtz '62 tells me, asking that I pay careful attention to the fact that 'government' is in a box and at the bottom. Mohtz likes to think of himself as a 'constitutionalist' rather than a conservative. Like many other delegates, he totes several copies of the Constitution around with him at all times. He opens one. "Congress shall make no law abridging..." Mohtz, a squat little man, gets excited. "That limitation's not on you, not on me, it's on Congress." He tells me of his campaign for Congress...
Throughout China, the Great Helmsman was mourned much as he would probably have wished. While hundreds of thousands of Chinese-bureaucrats and party officials, generals, peasants, children-filed past Mao's bier in a somber, emotional ceremony at Peking's Great Hall of the People (see box next page), millions more paid their respects by following the official admonition to "turn grief into strength...
...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...
There are also the restaurants: the sit-down places like Ken's Pub and Hunan ("You just can't find places like that in Harvard Square," says Smith), the quickie places like McDonalds' and the 24-hour Jack in the Box ("We've got our choice of 43 dreck places to eat at down here," says Lane), and the widest assortment of bars and discos, like The Speakeasy, the Cantab, etc., etc., this side of downtown Boston...