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...black American was so widely honored in his lifetime; yet segregationists denounced Martin Luther King Jr. as a Communist and worse, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover once publicly branded him a liar, and militant blacks eventually came to see him as a "sellout" to the white Establishment. Now a black writer has added yet another-and unlikely-epithet to those fastened on the assassinated leader. In a new book, The King God Didn't Save (Coward-McCann, Inc.; $5.95), Novelist John Williams (Night Song, The Man Who Cried I Am) calls King a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Posthumous Pillory | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...years she has had an enviable underground reputation, which Play it As It Lays will probably bring to the surface. Part of the attraction is consistency -Joan never flinches from repeating herself. Didion addicts feel they know all about her eccentricities: the preoccupation with striped sheets and the Hoover Dam, the way she regards hair brushing as a form of existential prayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivor's Report | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...National Press Club's 50th anniversary dinner at Washington's Shoreham Hotel: Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 73; Mrs. Charles S. Robb, 26, elder daughter of Lyndon Johnson; Teddy and Joan Kennedy; Mrs. James A. Hoisted, 64, only daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mrs. Richard T. Brigham (Peggy-Ann Hoover), 44, Herbert's granddaughter. Also Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, Theodore's daughter-and Pat Nixon, who showed up with husband and family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1970 | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...nose. "I'm sorry I did that," said the former Governor and U.S. Senator. "I didn't even think." The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1970 | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, recommended that doctors be encouraged to practice in groups and that the costs of medical care "be placed on a group-payment basis, through the use of insurance, through the use of taxation, or both of these methods." Though Wilbur was Republican President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and a former president of the American Medical Association, his recommendations were denounced in the Journal of the A.M.A. as "socialism and Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for the Nation's Health | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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