Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, Moynihan's guidelines could have the same durable influence in domestic affairs that George Kennan's famous containment policy memo achieved in foreign affairs. They can, in any case, be expected to further Moynihan's reputation as an unorthodox thinker with little regard for hard-liners of either liberal or conservative persuasion. But first Moynihan must last long enough in the White House basement to produce his report. "He is a very voluble guy," says a Democratic Congressman. "Nixon doesn't know what he's swallowed." Perhaps not, but so far it has every...
...road, it's different. I mean, here are these chicks padding around the hotel corridors after you, and it's great." Some musicians, however, profess to find them a nuisance. Mothers Manager Dick Barber complains that groupies are in such ready supply that it is "pretty hard" to get rock bands to morning practices or recording sessions, "and sometimes hard to get them on the bandstand at night." Josephine Mori, public relations girl for a rock record company called Elektra, calls groupies "piranhas" and says: "They have no appreciation of the person they go to bed with." Marty...
...puzzled by the notion that only Negroes have suffered enough to sing the blues. "I've had trouble too, and everybody has trouble. Just living is a different kind of trouble." Living for Johnny meant dealing with a minority problem of his own: "Being an albino is hard, and when you're younger, it's a lot harder. When they said 'Hey, Whitey,' it was just like calling someone a nigger. They called me anything-fag, queer, freak...
...week during the flight of Apollo 9, the Spider is the homely offspring of a concept of Aeronautical Engineer John Houbolt, an unsung hero of the U.S. space program. NASA officials now agree that without Houbolt's lonely campaign early in the 1960s, the U.S. would have been hard pressed to meet John Kennedy's goal of landing men on the moon before...
...once, Breslin wasn't kidding. Robert J. Allen is a so-called friend who snatches money out of the hands of wheelchair cripples and has married the same girl four times, and was always good for a column when Breslin was hard up, which was often. But Allen, who is real even if he sounds like a figment of Breslin's fertile Gaelic fancy, will no longer read about his exploits in the papers. At 39, Breslin is giving up newspapering, the only job he's known. Among others, his decision saddens Fat Thomas...