Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally, a high percentage of Crandall's calls have to do with integration, pro and con. He never hesitates. "Madam, you are a bigot," he barked at one caller. Last week he took on several waves of Negroes who were all for the stall-in scheme at the New York World's Fair. He said that sort of demonstration was "going too far, hitting the wrong people at the wrong time." In argument with a Negro girl last week, he asked: "Do you want me to accept you as an individual...
...fabulously successful film producer (Seven Arts Productions), he had never before done a Broadway show. Furthermore his wife Frances is the daughter of Fanny Brice and Nicky Arnstein. So there were book problems right away. The actual Nicky was considered unacceptable as a leading man. He was a shiftless con man with a column of mercury for a spine, a criminal record, and a cavalier attitude toward Fanny's devotion and fidelity...
...continue in the competition. Boeing's design embodies a "variable sweep" wing that can be extended for takeoffs and landings and tucked back for supersonic flight. Because this is such a revolutionary wing arrangement, the airlines want to be able to fall back on Lockheed's con ventional delta-wing design should the Boeing design prove too difficult...
...years. In Every Man a Murderer, written in the late '30s, Von Doderer returns to the same time and place. His fatalistic thesis is plainly stated in the first lines: "Everyone's childhood is plumped down over his head like a bucket. The con tents of this bucket are at first unknown...
...that there was surprisingly little disagreement between Hamilton and his coauthors, Madison and Jay. He writes: "The tough yet not despairing political theory that runs through Hamilton's 50-odd contributions is the same that carried him through his mature life." At New York's ratification con vention, it was Hamilton's charming, persuasive leadership that guided a pro-constitutional minority (19 of 46 delegates) "from the likelihood of defeat through the near certainty of stalemate to the actuality of victory...