Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bobby Kennedy supporter and leader of California migrant workers who has become a virtual messiah to thousands of Mexican Americans. The Senator did in fact have long talks with Chávez. But he could not bring himself to ask for the labor leader's help. He only observed mildly that "we hope you will be with us." Chávez sat on the sidelines...
...resistance" that went up on walls all over town: "We have not learned anything, we don't know anything, we don't have anything, we don't give anything, we can't do anything, we don't sell anything, we don't help, we don't understand, we don't betray." The tenth was printed in large letters: "We will not forget anything." The "commandments" proved to be captive Czechoslovakia's secret weapon against the Russian invaders...
Davies, who for two years wrote the "Atticus" feature in the London Sunday Times, is the perfect prototype of the modern hagiographer: a onetime gossip columnist with a novelist's background (Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush). With the help of his subjects, who are getting a cut of the royalties, he offers the largest selection of spicy morsels yet compiled on the Beatles. For example, here is Paul McCartney on sex: "I got it for the first time at 15. I suppose that was a bit early. I was about the first in my class." Or Ringo...
...Long extolled as a tonic for lazy muscles, bicycling is now being boosted as a treatment for a far more serious disability. Using a rigid cycling regimen, says Boston's Dr. Harry Bass, he has been able to help patients afflicted with emphysema, a respiratory ailment that gradually impairs breathing and kills as many as 20,000 Americans a year...
...other mid-16th century Italian painters have been mentioned as the artist, including Pontormo, Mirabello Cavalori, Jacopo del Conte and Vasari. At the moment, the museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait of Lorenzino de' Medici, an unhappy Florentine noble who killed Alessandro de' Medici and fled to Venice for refuge, only to be murdered by Alessandro's successor...