Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth. Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived a full ten minutes early; the vote was expected to be close, and he could break a tie. As the clock on the Senate wall reached 1 p.m., the chamber hushed, and the roll call began. The outcome hung on the votes of seven uncommitted Senators, and everyone who had any business being there knew who they were. Nevada's Alan Bible, a Democrat, was the first of the seven to be called. He said "No," and the audience gasped. Other nays followed, and then...
Mathias began to get pointed mail and telephone calls from his home state. "It's not so much what they say as the way they say how extreme their disappointment will be. You get the party functionaries who threaten party revolt. You get the man who does business with the Government-and it may well be that he was instigated by someone in the Administration to call." The implication is that the man's business might be taken away if Mathias voted negatively. "A Maryland applicant for a position in the Administration was told that there...
...owned by Cosa Nostra An equally distasteful prospect for casino owners would be that the dealers could become free agents, responsible only to the mobsters. If they cheated the players, or skimmed small amounts for themselves, the dealers could rely on protection from the union with its power to call a walkout. Naturally, the mob would take a healthy cut from any of the dealers' larcenous sidelines...
...complaining connoisseur has a moot point, and even if we accept it, we are tempted to ask, So what? Whatever you call those units of writing that he lays down on paper, they speak to us. They laugh at the absurdity of our obsessions and they clarity the source of our worries. He writes about...
...Beach and I climbed into the Yale Daily News office through an open window, found a telephone, and called anyone who might be interested in diseased Yalics. The AP. the UPI. the New Haven Register, WRKO. All the heavy weights. We were putting the massive hurt to New Haven. Both the AP and UPI were skeptical, and called back. We both posed as Yale staffers, confirmed the sad report, and told them that Brewster, the Yale president, had told us to have anyone call him at anytime to confirm the forfeit. This was our finest moment. AP fell...