Word: hare
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...Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming of the registrars as "the second Reconstruction." And in Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish, where less than 5% of the 4,102 voting-age Negroes are on the rolls, one white lounger turned to a friend as the registration lines formed...
...Raymond A. Hare, 64, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, to succeed Phillips Talbot as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Talbot will become U.S. Ambassador to Greece, replacing Henry R. Labouisse, who resigned last March to become director of the United Nations Children's Fund...
Died. Thornton Waldo Burgess, 91, bedtime storyteller who regaled the country's moppets for nearly half a century with 71 books (7,500,000 copies and some 15,000 hare-raising tales about Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Reddy Fox and other denizens of the Green Meadow that were syndicated in nearly 100 U.S. newspapers; of malignant melanoma; in Hampden, Mass...
...makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil on Jerome Bruner, Michael O'Hare's defense of Jose Luis Sert, and Nancy Tobey on Len Gittleman--reach the third level...
...have got the bear, now we will get the hare," he recited, stumbling over the words as if he were trying to spit out a memorized phrase. However, he conceded, with his arm around Patterson that "he might stand a better chance than the bear...