Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Harvard won all seven of its dual meets as well as the Heptagonal and Big Three Championships. This year's team, barring injuries, is expected to do well and perhaps to challenge Villanova for Eastern supremacy...
Since 1960 Bill Cleary has been one of the top officials of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. He plans to leave officiating "unless the ECAC needs me in a pinch...
...which will probably carry the senatorial candidate down to defeat, an active liberal campaign by Kennedyite Michael Mills for the 1969 gubernatorial nomination against the dispirited regulars could conceivably put Mills in office. Once in office the patronage--which still controls vitually all the politics in the poverty-stricken eastern part of the state--could give the liberals control...
...been bedeviled by spiraling expenses, which increased by 21.2% last year and are up almost as much more in 1968. The one-two punch has battered the profits of some of the biggest carriers. United has suffered an earnings decline this year of 49.2%, Continental Airlines of 62.5%, Eastern of 63.3%. Even worse off is Trans World Airlines, which lost $1.78 million during the year's first half, compared with a profit of $7.62 mil lion in the same period last year...
Sheed has already disclosed in a prologue what all this leads to. In later life, James Bannister becomes owner and resident propagandist of two right-wing radio stations in California. Aloof and "Eastern" in the West, he fervently eulogizes his conception of a departed America while railing against English decadence in an incurable English accent. But Sheed's tale is more than an ironic pathology of the right-wing mind, more, even, than a wry diagnosis of a severely fractured nationality. It also captures the comic anguish of a youth who begins to understand himself just at the moment...