Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper full of world news. But to Humorist Baker, 42, even a fraction of all the news that's fit to print is far too much. "The law of life," he writes, "is that there is almost always less happening than meets the eye...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
...later in the afternoon, despite the atemps of Rep. Dever (who likened House Speaker Davoren to Brutus) and a few other disgruntled legislators. John F. X. Davoren (Dem-Milford) was elected Massachusetts' new Secretary of State. And a little bit later in the day the House--under the watchful eye of Santa Claus who apparently finished his Christmas party duties--elected House Majority Leader Robert Quinn (Dem-Dorchester) the new Speaker of the House...
Davoren, with an eye to the gubernatorial election in 1970, was interested in gaining a more prestigious position than that of Speaker and had his sights set on replacing. White as the Secretary of State. At some point White connected the dire need for state welfare cost assumption with Davoren's lean and hungry look. He then did the inconceivable. On December 8, White announced that he would not resign as Secretary of State until the legislature had financed the welfare re-organization scheme...
...from the backcourt that Penn gave Princeton some trouble. At 6-3, Charlie Snell is listed as a forward, but he hurt the Tigers with an effective outside jumper. Harvard's man-to-man defense may match him with Bobby Johnson--a terrific leaper himself. These are two eye-catching ball-players...