Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Bobby blurred across the landscape, the back-room segment of his campaign streaked with equal determination. A battalion of speechwriters and strategists, secretaries and file clerks established headquarters on three floors of a new building at 2000 L Street in Washington, attempting, as one staffer put it, to do in a few weeks "what it took John Kennedy 16 months...
...appeal to youth is nonpareil. He is cool without being cold, a scholar with four books to his credit who once played semipro baseball, a father of four who spent a year as a Benedictine novice. He can talk to students-as well as to businessmen and farmers-with equal ease about politics and poetry. At the risk of sounding fey, he usually prefers the far-out. A New York Times reporter last week described this conversation between McCarthy and Poet Robert Lowell, an ardent supporter who has been traveling with the entourage...
...large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...
...curvaceous nude who is continually being assaulted by men, women, animals and monsters. From each scrape, she escapes with her smooth skin, at least, entirely intact. When one tormentor turned out to be a German army officer, the issue was banned in West Germany. Two issues later, Evergreen gave equal time, as it were, and made Phoebe's torturer a rabbi. Having mined that vein, Evergreen temporarily dropped Phoebe after one last mass orgy of sadism in which all her enemies ganged...
...President over the mixture has thwarted meaningful action. Now there are a few signs of movement. Two weeks ago, Johnson offered to trim his budget request for fiscal 1969 by $9 billion-but only if Congress approves his plea for a 10% income-tax surcharge to siphon an equal amount from the U.S. economy. Last week the President called for national "austerity," warned that the dangers confronting the dollar are "immediate and serious." Said he: "The fabric of international cooperation upon which the world's postwar prosperity has been built is now threatened. If that fabric is torn apart...