Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the first of the defendants to be tried, Private Nesrey D. Sood, 26, a father of three from Oakland, Calif., was found guilty. He was given 15 years at hard labor, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and an eventual dis honorable discharge. "I am shocked," said Paul Halvonik, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who defended Sood. "Fifteen years for going out and singing and raising his fingers in a 'V is absurd." Sood, a draftee who had gone AWOL last September because he heard that his wife was neglecting their children back home...
...fierce anti-Communist who admits to an admiration for Adolf Hitler's nation-building abilities, Thackeray emerged as a political force in 1967, when he and his followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring states of Mysore and Kerala hold a disproportionate number of these eagerly sought posts...
...years, the only cohesive and controlling force in a China disrupted by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has been the army. If it has not always exercised its power in a way that has pleased the leadership in Peking, the rea son is not hard to find: most of the sol diers in the People's Liberation Army are of peasant stock, and it is the peas ants who have been especially recalcitrant in the face of Peking's rule -even before the Cultural Revolution was ever launched. While the revolution focused...
...Court Justice William O. Douglas, 70, veteran of two other alliances with pretty young things, and now married to 26-year-old Cathleen Heffernan. The recent marriage of South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, 66, and Nancy Janice Moore, 22, a former Miss South Carolina, suggests that even hard-shell Baptists may join a trend that once seemed confined to jet-setters. The Thurmonds typify a tendency of many May-December couples: they strive to be more normal than normal. "I love her and I'm very happy," says Thurmond. "We have so many things in common." Says...
...born wife to Washington's intimidating society. On the other hand, a young wife should not be unduly nervous about reminding her husband of their age difference-elaborately avoiding another set of tennis or politely yawning at 11 p.m. Most older men will only react by trying doubly hard to prove how young they are, sweating it out on the tennis court or discothequing it way past their bedtime...