Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting alone at an 18-foot table in the crowded chamber, Hickel fielded a barrage of questions about his policies during two years as Governor. Why had he taken it upon himself to block a Japanese freezer ship from buying fish from a struggling Eskimo cooperative, thus forcing the Eskimos to sell the catch at lower prices to local private interests? The Senators said that he had overstepped his authority by unlawfully invoking an international agreement. "I just don't recollect," said Hickel. "It was a human error." (Last week the cooperative filed a $150,000 suit against Hickel...
Eight years ago, the black man could not set foot inside many U.S. restaurants or hotels-except as a servant. Now, almost the last vestige of segregation has been wiped off the law books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there...
...week's end, only two days before Johnson left the White House, the four delegations met in the French Foreign Ministry's International Conference Center, the old Hotel Majestic on the Avenue Kleber. They assembled around a new 151-foot diameter main table, built the day before and covered with green baize cloth by French carpenters under the supervision of officials from the Quai d'Orsay. It was the same room in which the U.S. and North Viet Nam had begun preliminary talks on a settlement last...
...deplorable character, a petulant, scheming, vainglorious seeker of fame with the divine arrogance of one who declares that "he who is not with me is against me." He was also a collector of injustices; anyone who offended him but once was sure to feel the whiplash of his five-foot line. Those were the days before words went soggy in a Sargasso Sea of print. Men wielded words as deadly weapons, names had magical significance, and a barbed line could not be lightly shaken off by the hooked fish...
...adeptness as an all-round hood. A "soldier" in the Cosa Nostra for more than 30 years, Valachi has, by Justice Department count, a murder to show for every year. Most recently, on a June morning in 1962, he beat a fellow convict to death with a two-foot length of iron pipe at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. By then, Valachi was fighting for his own life. He had received the "kiss of death" from his capo (boss) and cellmate Vito Genovese. In the end, Valachi did what the Cosa Nostra presumed he had done already. He became...