Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They oohed, they aahed, and they touched. Lindsay moved smoothly, confidently, charismatically through a bustling shopping center. His Florida chairman, State Senator Edmond Gong, declared how he would sound the bell for his candidate: "We're going to do a lot of walking." The schedule went without a hitch, thanks to the planning of Advance Man Sid Davidoff, who had run into initial hostility in Miami. He had been kicked out of his hotel for walking his dog Horse in the lobby and by the pool. The only overt sign of anti-Lindsay sentiment was a quarter-page...
...with a bachelor buddy, works as a weather forecaster for a local radio station and private industry. Like many Americans in his trade, Frederick learned his meteorology in the U.S. Air Force. Unlike many, however, Frederick, disillusioned with the U.S., left the Air Force 2½ years before his hitch was up and fled to Canada rather than accept his country's involvement in Viet Nam. Nor does he wish to return to stay. He scorns the notion of an amnesty because it suggests he is guilty of something (see TIME ESSAY, next page). "I don't think...
...treasure house of minerals, including the huge North Slope oil reserves on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Ardent conservationists yearn to protect as much as possible of America's last great wilderness. But standing in the way of fulfilling anyone's wishes was a knotty legal hitch...
Russell has always been quite up. He fell in love with film at age three, and at six was sometimes watching three movies a day. In nautical college he dismayed the commander by having the cadets do drag imitations of Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda. After a hitch in the R.A.F., he danced with the Norwegian ballet, finally took up still photography before making his name with BBC television biographies of artists...
...very correctly, I think) that the liberals failed to realize that many of their reforms would lead not to a radicalization of the Church--that is, more power over the Church by individual Catholics and greater Church concern for problems of war, poverty and powerlessness--but rather to what Hitch cock tellingly calls "spiritual sub-urbanization." The radical spiritual ness of the Church is very much outside of the mainstream of American pragmatism with its emphasis on GNP and incentive systems. What liberal Catholics have failed to see--and what the Fathers Berrigan and Thomas Merton and the Catholic Worker...