Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy himself has an additional motive. He realizes that he has gone too far too fast in the run for 1960, that his liabilities are catching up with his assets-and yet he cannot slow down. A huge, headline-catching win over respectable Republican opposition in Massachusetts would give him a second wind. Then he could be off again on what, by the nature of the position he has staked out for himself, is bound sometimes to be a lonely way. Says Jack Kennedy: "An independent position is the only place for me. I'm a Northern Democrat...
NORTH CAROLINA Too Deep Too Fast? The church-studded textile city of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 119,000) has taken its responsibilities toward Negroes seriously. It has quietly integrated buses and public libraries, has an outstanding Negro member of the school board and this fall became the first city in North Carolina to begin limited school integration. But Greensboro balked when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opened a campaign to get integrated swimming pools...
...forthcoming sale of Greensboro's public swimming pools," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News sadly, "symbolizes the plight of a tormented region. The torment stems from hates and fears tragically stirred by unfortunate but inevitable high court decisions. It becomes inflammatory when forces which would push too fast clash with forces unwilling to move...
...letters signed "God Almighty." In red ink (when the Lord was angry) and in black (when he was not), the typewritten letters demanded that Barzilai return all documents and paraphernalia to Barti. The return address was not heaven, but % Rabbi Barti. Finally, Barti ordered Barzilai to Tiberias to fast for 40 days. "I ate nothing but a few slices of bread and drank nothing but water," said Barzilai. "But I did do quite a lot of thinking." As a result of his thinking, Barzilai went to the police and Rabbi Barti landed in jail...
...their late 403 left Iowa City's University Hospital last week and boarded planes to carry them to their homes in the South. Each walked with a fast, short-stepped gait ("festination") and had a marked tremor on his left side. These were symptoms of advanced Parkinsonism, a disorder (cause unknown) of nerve nuclei at the base of the brain. But each man had just been freed of such symptoms on the right side. For the first time, after more than five years of helplessness, each could write legibly and feed himself an in-flight meal. This improvement...