Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nondescript; this year alone, four of his close associates have been accused of wrongdoing. Most important, Humphrey learned from Johnson that in the U.S. Senate, a cutting edge leads most often to ostracism and ineffectiveness. Humphrey could tolerate neither; Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy always flirted with both. "I'm not a fighter; I'm a conciliator," Humphrey has said...
Muskie's friendships within the Democratic Party have been ecumenical. He was close to John Kennedy, is a friend of both Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey. However much he admires Humphrey, he did not accept the vice-presidential nomination with any excess of zeal. Muskie loves his work and independence as a Senator, and despite his commanding speech at the convention, does not relish political campaigning...
...tyrannical studio head (Ernest Borgnine) who has monograms even on his toilet seats. And even the lesbian pass-made in this case by Italy's Rossella Falk, whose slinky version of a dope-shooting dyke is the best bit in the film. Director Robert Aldrich, who cut close to the Hollywood bone 13 years ago with The Big Knife, moved on to more forthright mayhem with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte and The Dirty Dozen. Even in this company, Lylah Clare doesn't make...
Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...
...world of the haves and the havenots, the real losers may be the half-haves. They are the ones who come close enough to the rainbow to count the stripes, the ones who are suckered into stretching out their arms toward the pot of gold they will never touch...