Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro Marine heard Mormon Romney speak and asked dryly: "Is the Governor letting Negroes into his church yet?" Another Marine at Danang refused at first to shake his hand. "I don't like some of the things you've been saying about Viet Nam," he explained. Romney was saying very little publicly on the subject last week, preferring, between field briefings, to conduct a political campaign of sorts. ("Get that hut in the background," he instructed a press aide at one stop, as he lifted a little girl in his arms.) President Thieu and Ambassador Bunker received Romney. U.S. military...
Everyone has heard of the Ford Foundation. And the Rockefeller Foundation, and the many Guggenheim foundations. But who ever heard of the Robert O. Hayes Foundation of Grand Blanc, Mich.? It exists, however, and according to its records, it made recent grants of $2 each to the Easter Seal campaign, the American Cancer Society and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. But the size of its operations do not legally make a foundation any less taxexempt, and that is the point...
...have to know. Linda." Several of the small fry pose questions that defy convincing theological answers: "Dear God, Charles my cat got run over. And if you made it happen you have to tell me why. Harvey." Or: "Dear God, Do good people have to die young? I heard my mommy say that. I am not always good. Yours Truly, Barbara." Though most of the children appear to conceive of God as a bigger-than-life human, a few seem to have a touch of the demythologizer about them. One seven-year-old penned:"Dear God, I am writing...
...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
...slipping into the shrubbery with the lads of their choice, the dotty and the shrewd, the pleasures of the bed and the hum of local politics-nothing escapes the chronicler's notice. But after a while the detail be comes soporific, the eye closes, and the thud is heard through the house as the book slides from...