Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand profoundly shocked a nation not yet recovered from the Chicago nurses' murders. One effect was to prompt a re-examination of U.S. arms laws and methods of handling suspected psychotics (see boxes). There was a spate of ideas, some hasty and ill conceived. Texas Governor John Connally, who broke off a Latin American tour and hurried home after the shootings, demanded legislation requiring that any individual freed on the ground of insanity in murder and kidnaping cases be institutionalized for life. New York's Senator Robert Kennedy proposed that persons acquitted of all federal crimes on the ground...
When the Sherman Adams scandal broke, Mollenhoff adopted the relatively simple strategy of bracing Mrs. Adams at home. After a bit of chitchat, he calmly asked, "Could I see the rug?," a reference to the Oriental rug that Adams was rumored to have improperly accepted. "No, I hadn't better show it to you," replied the innocent Mrs. Adams, thereby confirming its existence. Mollenhoff said a polite goodbye and soon splashed the whole story of the gifts across his papers...
Somehow, readers of the British story and of the few U.S. papers carrying it ignored Lennon's foray into theology; but last week, after the quote was reprinted in the U.S. teen magazine Datebook, all hellfire broke loose. Manager Tommy Charles of WAQY in Birmingham, Ala., forthwith banned the playing of any Beatle record on his radio station. KTEE, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, announced a similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined...
Outspoken Spokesman. The secret of Heston's success is his capacity for appearing virile without being lecherous in Olympian roles. He is tall in the saddle (6 ft. 2 in.) and so adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face in a scene from Ruby Gentry. Furthermore, it is a virtuous, earnest face that most women would not want to slap. In his films, he is usually too busy dabbing away at a Sistine ceiling or chasing chariots to chase girls...
...life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked out the vestry door into the balmy night, the waiting crowd broke into an ovation that echoed through the narrow streets. "Absolutely remarkable!" exclaimed Oistrakh. "Never in the history of stringed instruments has there been such a musician...