Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Herbert Itkin, an FBI informant, Voloshen worked both for and against the Haitian government of François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
Thus, 91 years to the day after Bismarck banned the Socialists from Imperial Germany and 39 years since the party last headed a government, a Socialist candidate was chosen to lead West Germany. Political Strategist Herbert Wehner, the fierce ex-Communist who masterminded the transformation of the Socialists from a blue-collar movement into a more broadly based party, rushed to embrace Brandt. Their dream finally realized, Brandt openly wept. "I am satisfied, grateful for the confidence and a little proud," he said a few moments later. Then the new Chancellor, who spent the Nazi years in Scandinavian exile, added...
...continuum of thought and experience among the young which links together the New Left sociology of Mills, the Freudian Marxism of Herbert Marcuse, the Gestalt-therapy anarchism of Paul Goodman, the apocalyptic body mysticism of Norman Brown, the Zen-based psychotherapy of Alan Watts, and finally Timothy Leary's impenetrably occult narcissism...
...favorite economist, and the saying in Washington is that "when Arthur talks, Nixon listens." The President has said that his choice of Paul McCracken to head the Council of Economic Advisers was made on the advice of "my good friend," Arthur Burns. It was Burns who also recommended Herbert Stein as a member of the three-man council and George Schultz to become Labor Secretary. His closeness to Nixon raises a somewhat ironic problem. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of the President, and those who cherish this concept usually worry that the President might put too much...
THOSE FABULOUS PHILADELPHIANS by Herbert Kupferberg. 257 pages. Scribner. $7.95. A chronicle of the Philadelphia Orchestra from turn-of-the-century birth pangs to Eugene Ormandy's reflections on the famed Philadelphia sound...