Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well. Not since 1952 has the party in power been so vulnerable. Even without an Ike like figure atop their lead elephant, the Republicans have both the opportunity and the will to reoccupy the White House in January and to re-establish credentials that they have not held since Herbert Hoover...
Born into a moderately comfortable Seattle family, Evans inherited his interest in politics from his mother's side. "One of the earliest remembrances I have is watching mother dress up to go to the Herbert Hoover victory celebration when he ran against F.D.R.," says Evans. "It has become a standing family joke...
...matter in perspective. It described an after-dinner speaker who began: "Mr. Chairman, distinguished platform guests and my fellow Afro-Americans, Negro, Black, Colored, Soul Brothers and Sisters ..." To some militants, including some members of the staff, Ebony is too smugly middleclass. To which Executive Editor Herbert Nipson replies: "Some people expect Ebony, because it is a Negro magazine, to print propaganda for every black program that comes along. But we're not an organ for anybody. Not for the N.A.A.C.P., not for CORE, not for S.N.C.C...
Another recent headache has been Herbert's pair of 15-watt "Redifor" army radios. For the past four days, fierce geomagnetic storms have prevented Freddy Church from receiving even a routine fix on the camp's drifting position. Even more powerful transmitters located on the nearby U.S. ice island T-3 have recently failed to reach the Naval Arctic Research Lab here...
Church simply broadcasts his message on a 1,000 watt transmitter near Barrow and Herbert acknowledges by tapping out the letter "R" for a few minutes on the one field radio that still operates. Every once in a while, a few of Herbert's weak signals, the only contact between these four men and the rest of the world, penetrates the radio noise...