Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidacy of Senator Clifford Case, and the Nixon forces decided to move in on it. On a golf course over the weekend, Nixon Aide Peter Flanigan told State G.O.P. Chairman Webster Todd: "Look, we need your delegation right now." Todd, whose wife was openly supporting Rockefeller, shot back: "Hell, no!" But pressure continued on individual delegates, who saw no purpose in holding out for a lost cause. By Tuesday night it was open knowledge that New Jersey would break, just as it had at the 1964 convention...
...ends up doing the wrong thing for the right reason. And Nixon had powerful supporters in the delegation, including George Bloom, chairman of the state public-utility commission, and Congressman James Fulton. When Rockefeller visited the Keystone Staters, District Attorney Robert Duggan of Allegheny County demanded: "And where in hell were you in 1964?" It became increasingly clear that Nixon would get some help from Pennsylvania...
Longhair Publicity. Joseph McGinniss, columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, pursued John Wayne from his "inspirational reading" at the convention to the Poodle Lounge at the Hotel Fontainebleau. In the boozy gloom, Wayne reviewed his speech. "What the hell did I say? I have no idea what the hell I said." Then he remembered a little. "Permissiveness is the biggest problem we have. The people in these colleges and these ghettos and these goddam longhair punks." And it's all the fault of the press, he said. "Nothing is ever any different from how it ever was except all these...
...experiment ran into trouble from the very beginning. The long-bearded, black-robed prelates of the church in Greece were shocked that many of the American priests were clean shaven and wore suits. They also complained that the visitors were hell-bent on "de-Hellenizing" Orthodoxy. Archbishop Iakovos, head of the American church, took note of this hostility in his opening address at the 1,800-year-old Theater of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis. "It sometimes seems to us," he said, "that you keep us at a distance, that you consider us strangers. Let it not be heard from...
...nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis explains the difference carefully. Hippies believe the world could be a better place. "Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time...