Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it would kill off "a large section of the country"-namely, the Deep South. The other is Title VII, empowering a Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent job discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin or sex (the latter thanks to an amendment offered by House Democrat Howard Smith, more in the spirit of obstruction than of chivalry). Russell contends that the commission would discriminate against what he calls "the average garden variety of American...
...total vote, the biggest percentage piled up by any Senator outside the South. He swept all 56 counties, had a plurality of 120,337. He is up for reelection again this year, but the G.O.P.'s most attractive potential candidates are holding off for a crack at Democrat Lee Metcalf's seat in 1966. Mansfield, therefore, has few worries about reelection...
...quest for bipartisanship, the Governor bears a heavy burden in the Falstaffian form of his Lieutenant Governor, T. (for Thaddeus) John Le-sinski, a 300-lb. Democrat who loves to ridicule Romney. Last week Romney returned from a two-week vacation in Hawaii to discover that Lesinski, as acting Governor, had just issued a devastating takeoff on Romney in his own "Report to the People...
...Church and enriched the heritage of humanity"; Author John Updike, 32, Critic Aileen Ward, 40, and Poet John Crowe Ransom, 75, each presented with a $1,000 National Book Award for last year's The Centaur, John Keats: The Making of a Poet and Selected Poems, respectively; Arizona Democrat Carl Hayden, 86, now the Senator with the longest record of service in the entire history of the Senate, having passed the longevity total of the late Wyoming Republican Francis Warren; and U.S. Ambassador Fulton Freeman, 48, given the Cruz de Boyaca-Colombia's highest award, previously reserved only...
...easy to be an artist, because nothing else paid anything either. Lindner started off as a concert pianist, but in 1922 he cheated his way into an art academy by submitting a friend's sketches, and began his life's work. As a Jew and a Social Democrat, Lindner knew in 1933 that the rise of Hitler was a reason to flee. He arrived in the U.S. in 1941, began working as a magazine illustrator, did not get back to creative painting until...