Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordered that the system of dual schools for whites and blacks be dismantled. In 1968-69, only 20% of the Negro children in the South attended integrated schools; this fall, the percentage will nearly double. Moreover, the Government also inherited from the Johnson Administration plans to press -and press hard-upon those Southern education districts that had not yet begun realistic desegregation. School separatism seemed finally doomed, to the despair of diehard segregationists and the joy of civil rights advocates...
...uniformed agent sits in the lobby with an eleven-button telephone; no one gets past him without an appointment. Johnson either flies into Austin by Air Force helicopter, landing on the roof, or drives in his Lincoln Continental. Federal employees are finding parking spots in the basement garage increasingly hard to come by. The whole front row has been commandeered by L.B.J. and the Secret Service, and about half the remaining spaces disappeared in a trice to make room for a large Sheetrock storehouse-presumably for some of those voluminous collections of presidential papers...
...Vice President, for example, gets $10,000 a year for expenses, but so far has had a hard time using it. The Nixons entertain so much that Agnew has been called on only once to throw an official dinner. The Agnews live in a four-bedroom Sheraton-Park Hotel suite, which they find adequate despite its obvious contrast with their previous quarters, the 54-room Maryland Governor's mansion in Annapolis. Their counterpart of San Clemente is the same paint-flecking seashore cottage in Maryland that they have rented for years. A big Saturday night at the Agnews...
...talents. As U.S. Attorney, he had the distinction of convicting Raymond Patriarca, a New England Cosa Nostra boss, on two counts of conspiracy to murder. Yet he was blamed for allowing four defendants to escape punishment for the $ 1,551,277 Plymouth mail robbery. The Kennedy disaster was a hard blow professionally, since it was only last May that Markham resigned as U.S. Attorney to join a private law firm in Boston. Now his legal reputation is at least diminished...
Veteran New York Times Reporter Joseph Durso has written a literate book full of the deeds and diamond-in-the-rough doings of his hero. Sometimes he threatens to drown the baseball legend in cultural asides and long swatches of Americana. McGraw himself, however, proves a hard man to put down...