Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd liked Lewis. But then came more speeches, some of them rather dull, and all of them overlong. People began to mill around, many even started to leave. But their attention was captured once again by a slender, low-toned speaker wearing a blue legionnaire-type cap. He was Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who was introduced as the "acknowledged leader" of the civil rights movement. Wilkins talked quietly of the necessity for passage of President Kennedy's bill. "The President's proposals," he said, "represent so moderate...
Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was a glad-hander who never managed to look really glad. He was a campaigner who achieved a kind of glum sincerity even when his head was smothered under an outlandish coonskin cap. He was given to platitudes that put him foursquare in favor of "the best interests of the plain people of this nation" and "an even break for the average man." Some of his Senate colleagues insisted that there was a vacuum in the space between his ears. And he was a loner who became anathema to the national Democratic hierarchy...
...Senate in 1948, tangled with Memphis Boss Edward H. Crump, who labeled Kefauver a "pet coon." Kefauver laboriously replied, "I may be a pet coon, but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." At his next campaign appearance he clapped a coonskin cap on his head, pointed to the tail and said, "A coon may have rings around his tail, but this coon will never have a ring through his nose." He beat the Crump machine, and more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands...
...film has its funny moments, some of them intentional. A small boy, forced to play an angel in a Christmas pageant, grimly determines to make the best of a bad situation-on top of his halo he wears a Stan Musial cap. But most of the film is intolerable Technicolored tarradiddle, absolutely the worst movie ever directed by the illustrious John Ford (The Informer, Stagecoach). Watching him make such stuff is like watching Escoffier make mudpies...
Only the doctors and nurses specially assigned to the new unit at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center were allowed to enter it, and even they had to "scrub up" first and put on a sterile gown, cap and mask. Lining the pale green wall was a row of Plexiglas-covered incubators. The babies who wriggled and squeaked in them last week were being treated like miniature maharajahs, with the most expert and intensive care around the clock. To diaper them with out changing the balmy temperature of their isolation, nurses worked through armholes in the incubator sides. Some...