Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
Tasteless Opulence. Nixon seems to be giving considerable weight to the kind of argument expressed by one Southern lady on the convention floor. She declared: "This is a protest year. We've got to get that protest." She did not mean Negroes or fractious students. The protesters that concern her are people "who are sick and tired of their money going out of their pockets to keep people sitting in front of TV sets...
...legislative and executive functions of government would be split into separate branches, and Parliament, one-fifth of whose members would be appointed by the ruling government, would have almost no power over the Premier. Greece's fractious voters would be reduced to casting their ballots for or against the government in power, with no guarantee that they could muster enough strength to overcome the ruling regime's 20% edge...
Died. Sol A. Rosenblatt, 67, New York lawyer, who handled the marital affairs of the famous, was equally known as the impartial arbitrator of the city's fractious garment industry from 1935 to 1940, and from 1947 until his death; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. Though Rosenblatt represented such contestants as Stavros Niarchos and Alfred Vanderbilt in divorce suits, family peace was his main concern-and it was nowhere more evident than in the garment district, where his quiet good sense settled many strikes and staved off many others. Spain, where he maintained a home...
...largest mortgage facility. Skeptics smiled wisely, knowing that such grand plans are often as not pulverized by the ponderous machinery of Government. Yet last week, when Lapin ordered a radical change in the way FNMA conducts its business, there was not a murmur of dissent from the frequently fractious housing industry...