Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beige cloth to conceal their identity. As military policemen filled four olive-drab flamethrowers with tear gas, a dollop of the reeking riot queller spilled and gas masks were donned until it cleared. The troops were the first committed in metropolitan Washington for crowd-control duty since 1932, when Herbert Hoover called in 1,000 cavalry and infantrymen under Douglas MacArthur to put down the Bonus March...
...Herbert D. Long, dean of students at the Divinity School, said that the anti-war and anti-draft activities were a logical extension of the civil rights activities of the early 60's. They will once more bring "the relationship between church and state before the public," Long commented. "And it is always necessary to reevaluate that relationship," he added...
...Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping to build a formidable "anti" vote-the kind that helped Ike to defeat Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin Roosevelt to unseat Herbert Hoover...
Smartest are those by Coty Award Winning Shoe Designers Herbert and Beth Levine, who charge up to $75 for their fisherman's waders. Keeping the boots up is in itself a problem. "I give the woman three loops at the top, and the rest is up to her," says another high-style shoe designer, David Evins. ''You cannot imagine what weird contraptions women have devised to hold them up." The Levines are more merciful: their boots also come with loops, plus a belt to hold the waders...
Faced with this book, some readers might be dismayed by the thought of yet another Jewish novel. What with The Fixer by Malamud, The Chosen by Potok, and Fathers by Herbert Gold, not to mention a score of nonfiction books on Jewish themes recently, the public may well suspect a conspiracy to corner the literary market. But Singer is different and special. A deceptively frail, birdlike presence, he inhabits with iron realism a no man's land somewhere in the middle of a life of contradictions divided between 31 years spent in his native Poland and 32 years...