Word: hooverness
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...