Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence of a creative policy-and worthy policymakers. Despite his image as a hardheaded selector of talented men, Nixon chose the mediocre Spiro Agnew as running mate to avoid antagonizing Southern Republicans, while Humphrey picked the better-qualified Edmund Muskie. "Agnew is not a racist," said Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, last week. Then, in an extraordinary burst of candor, he added: "I hope I'm right. I hope for the good of the country I'm right." Nixon, too, must be hoping for a better show from Agnew. He himself now regrets his choice-although in public...
...chose to fight liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
...Robert F. Kennedy Memorial--a loosely-defined corporation which will look for solutions to social problems--has been created, Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 announced yesterday...
...Melbourne, Australia, Lawrence Edward Hannell, a 21-year-old laborer on trial for the fatal stabbing of a 77-year-old widow, faced a maximum sentence of death. Hannell had earlier pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Dr. Allen A. Bartholomew, Psychiatric Superintendent of Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, testified that he had examined Hannell, found him to be an XYY. The imbalance, coupled with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating...
...student, Edward Sanders '72, feels that what is really needed is a black professor to teach the course. He said Harvard should endow a chair in Afro-American Affairs and give it to a black professor...