Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racist" to call for law and order (Dick Gregory). Does Mr. Gregory mean that if you're for law and order you must be against Negroes, because they are not (for law and order)? I'm trying to figure that...
Senior Editor Michael Demarest supervised the Nation section story conference, and Chief of Correspondents Dick Clurman deployed his men. Whatever his area of responsibility, each correspondent was looking for the unexpected lead, for the new dimension in a story so thoroughly covered by TV, radio and the rest of the press. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele and Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil had roving commissions. Washington's Lansing Lamont covered Rockefeller, and Simmons Fentress stayed with Nixon. At Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago...
...attended every convention since 1944; he supported Dewey, Taft and Goldwater. He now "leans" toward Nixon, though "I'm not a zealot for him like some members of the delegation. I think that people who've been in the political process as I have are comfortable with Dick Nixon, I've always trusted him and felt grateful to him, I could feel this way about Rockefeller or Reagan if I knew them better, but I don't, There's the old saying here-stay with a friend...
...nonparty youths to work on the paper, it is still largely staffed by oldtime party members. The readership is similarly middleaged. Blandness seems to be the chief weakness of the World, as well as a certain amateurism. On page 3 of an issue last week, a story told how "Dick Gregory lay gravely ill" in a jail while friends feared for his life. On page 8 of the same issue was a photograph of Gregory just after his release from jail with the caption: "Dick's back." But to the faithful, the Daily World, no less than the Worker...
...long after Ahab navigated the Pequod out of Nantucket, Mass., in search of Moby Dick, the economy of the small island off Cape Cod began to stagnate. With the whalers gone, the population dropped from 17,000 to 3,500 and construction stopped altogether, so that today 60% of the houses predate 1840, and only the scallop industry survives, grossing about $200,000 a year...