Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awaiting King in Birmingham was Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor, a man who was to become a symbol of police brutality yet who, in fact, merely reflected the seething hatreds in a city where acts of violence were as common as chitlins and ham hocks. As it happened, Bull Connor was running for mayor against a relative moderate, Albert Boutwell. To avoid giving campaign fuel to Connor, King waited until after the April 2 election. Between Jan. 16 and March 29, he launched himself into a whirlwind speaking tour, made 28 speeches in 16 cities across the nation...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. Walt Disney's appealing package of holiday fauna contains a bull terrier, a Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat, all letting the fur fly on a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilds...
...fewer stock prices are way out of line with earnings than when the market hit its precrash high two years ago. Many Wall Streeters look for stock prices to stay about the same in 1964, or even dip, and some believe that this will be followed by another major bull market beginning in 1965 that could take the Dow-Jones average to an astonishing...
Conversion to Capitalism. While he was writing Mr. Dooley, Dunne had been the scourge of Wall Street and all its "malefactors of great wealth." But when fame came his way, Dunne preferred the company of Wall Streeters. When he managed to go broke at the height of the bull market in the 1920s, his well-placed friends bailed him out, and one left him a legacy of half a million. In his memoirs, Dunne describes how he pushed Harding for the presidency for no better reason than that he looked like a President and had a noble handshake...
...Frasconi met in Montevideo in 1933, three years before Lorca was gunned down in the Spanish Civil War. In 1962, after a month in Spain, Frasconi made 16 Picasso-like lithographs titled Oda a Lorca, in which the poet is depicted as a matador, Franco as a hairy-legged bull with tin horns, and Spain as a land of graves over which praying figures whirl by on the backs of monsters, symbolizing "mysticism and dogma in a wild, hysterical...