Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no secret, at least, about why she chose the church: she much admires Marble Collegiate's pastor, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the bestselling The Power of Positive Thinking (who was bedded down late last week with a case of flu complicated by hiccups). Her family has often attended his church. Julie shares a copy of Peak's book with a Smith classmate and brides maid, Anne Davis, who says: "Dr. Peale has helped us through all the rough spots."* Sample Peale advice to newly weds: "Couples who pray together grow together-and stick together...
Meanwhile, speculation arose as to why, if the accusations are accurate, Nixon chose that course. One theory is that Nixon was trying to force Johnson to drop the Goldberg proposal. Neither Nixon nor some of his conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...budget means a tough fight with the legislature and also provides a clue as to why Rockefeller chose to announce his political intentions so early. By declaring now, he hopes to avoid being labeled a lame duck and thereby to achieve greater leverage in dealing with the legislature...
...college's black students were not in a conciliatory mood when they confronted Wellesley's administration last spring. The confrontation arose over acceptances for the incoming freshman class that had just been sent out. Included among the 500 girls accepted were 19 blacks. But of the 19, only seven chose to come to Wellesley...
...when he named his Cabinet, Nixon ignored the need for symbolic reassurance to other alienated groups, especially the blacks. Instead he chose twelve reflections of his own purely Republican image. With one exception -- Princeton-educated Secretary of Labor George Shultz -- the Cabinet appointees fit the bourgeois ideal of the self-made man who struggled from the family farm or through the carpentry shop to prominence in law, business, or Midwestern universities...