Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permanent slowdown in desegregation efforts; indeed centralization might in time speed up integration of welfare programs and of nursing homes. Unquestionably, though, it will result in at least a temporary pause while administrative gears are shifted. For Gardner, one of the ablest and most popular Administration figures on Capitol Hill, the shift promises nothing but trouble. Asked if it meant "transferring the kitchen across the street"-putting the heat on him instead of Howe-Gardner smiled wanly and replied: "I wouldn't be surprised...
...Capitol Hill. "The essential problem of the poverty program isn't that it's weak, it's that it creates antagonisms," said Kennedy-and such antagonisms are inevitable if the poor are to have a role in shaping and directing the programs created for their benefit. "What came out of the hearings this morning," said Bobby in San Francisco, "was a desire for hope and dignity. You don't achieve this by coming in and telling the poor what is good for them. You must let them run the program, even if they run it badly...
...prostitutes, the women's page of the Detroit Free Press ranked them from chippies who settle for a good meal and a night on the town, to street walkers working at the beck of pimps and call of drugs, to expensive suburban call girls who keep Fanny Hill-style notes on their clients' bedroom peculiar ities. Last month the Miami Herald's women's page reported that 40% of the nation's chronic gamblers are women...
...idea for a funny film-ten years ago. Unfortunately. The Jokers are by now low cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much a cliche as the tale of the gun fighter who wants to hang up his shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring...
...stretchers, so we lifted him, still limp and warm, to the side of the road and left him with his serious waxen face where tanks would not bother him now nor anything else and went on into town." A wounded Loyalist soldier had a "face that looked like some hill that had been fought over in muddy weather and then baked in the sun." Hemingway reported so well and so movingly from Spain that two of his newspaper pieces later appeared virtually intact as short stories...