Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abandon that defied his advance men's efforts to bring out the crowds. Then there were the hecklers, taunting a Vice President who refused to repudiate his unpopular chief and run away from the record of the past four years. Humphrey's personal physician and adviser, Dr. Edgar Berman, complained at one point: "There is no adversity that has not been visited upon this campaign." He was not far wrong...
...Fistfights. New Mexico, which has only two Representatives, bucked the stability syndrome by voting both incumbents out of office. Republican Manuel Lujan Jr. upset five-term Democratic Representative Thomas G. Morris mainly on the basis of local economic issues. Republican Edgar F. Foreman, 34, overturned Democratic Representative E. S. Johnny Walker, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. In his political past, Foreman has mainly attracted attention by getting into fistfights with political foes. This time he managed to keep his temper...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...
...bishop, things have improved: Jim reported back to his father that he was "genuinely happy" and had been assigned to help other suicides. Pike reports that he has also spoken with his old friend and teacher Paul Tillich, and even with the late medium and spiritualist writer, Edgar Cayce. He has also learned a little more about Jesus: "They talk about him-a mystic, a seer, yes, a seer." According to Jim, Jesus is "triumphant," but "they don't talk about him as a savior" but as "an example...
Under the direction of Robert Edgar, Dunster House has put together an old production of The Imaginary Invalid. For one thing, several of the actors--especially Roy Goldfinger as Argan--play their roles in an effeminate way. Moliere's Argan, bluntly put, is a madman. When asked why he persists in standing in the way of his daughter's love, he replies, "Because I'm king of my own castle and I do what I think fit." On stage his source of strength should be this single-minded devotion to his role as the father of the family...