Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Recently they have become increasingly finicky about supporting Democrats, and fickle in their preferences. For example, two years ago they were the shrillest opponents of Robert Kennedy, and today they like to claim him as one of their own. Their specific objections to the current Democratic candidate for Governor, Frank O'Connor, boil down to two minor, long-since repudiated incidents in the early 1950's. Their real objection seems to lie in the fact that most City liberals just naturally assume that a Roman Catholic from Queens who was a District Attorney and head of the New York State...
...five p.m., a three-year-old Negro boy was wounded by a sniper's bullet. At nine p.m., a few blocks away, Mayor Lindsay entered Frank's Restaurant for a scheduled meeting with community leaders. Just before 10 p.m. as the Mayor left the neighborhood, 30 white demonstrators from the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE) chased 25 Negro counter-demonstrators for several blocks. A few minutes later, a sniper shot and killed an 11-year-old Negro boy from the roof of a near-by building...
...four buildings were raided that night and 1,000 policemen mobilized. Acting Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo said he was acting on a tip from an informer who had brought in some sticks of dynamite himself. But the night's haul was only two-and-a-half sticks, found under a couch. Later, police dug up some blasting caps in a North Philadelphia backyard and arrested a national Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee board member, a 19-year-old member of SNCC and a professional blaster...
...first time in his political career, Romney, who has only nominal competition in his own re-election campaign, has laid his reputation and enormous vote-getting powers on the line for another candidate. He has made speech after speech for Griffin, filling the autumn air with praise ("He is frank; he is direct; you can trust Bob Griffin!"). Romney has set a punishing schedule (25 downstate appearances in one day last week), made countless curbstone handshaking forays, appeared on TV spots and shows for Griffin. The Governor even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats' Labor...
Bill DeWitt is the owner of the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and what he had done for the Orioles was to trade them Outfielder Frank Robinson, 31. Last week Robinson was leading the league in hitting (.316), home runs (49) and runs batted in (120), bade fair to become the first player since Mickey Mantle in 1956 to win batting's Triple Crown-and was practically a cinch for the Most Valuable Player Award. All the Orioles gave up in exchange for Robinson was Pitcher Milt Pappas (1966 record: 10 wins, 11 losses) and a second-string...