Word: hyde
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Last week, almost on the eve of celebrations commemorating Roosevelt's 100th birthday, Professor R.J.C. Butow of the University of Washington published in the February/March issue of American Heritage a remarkable transcript of some long-forgotten recordings at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. After three years of technical doctoring and close study, Butow re-created a Roosevelt talking indiscreetly with his aides about Japanese military threats, the black arts of politics and the sex life of his 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. Bu tow insists that Roosevelt had no "Machiavellian designs," and that the recorder "was never...
...size and intensity of the peace protests impressed those who worked on the project. Rademaekers found the leaders of the peace movements "intelligent, knowledgeable, persuasive and, above all, convinced of the Tightness of their cause." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, who attended a huge anti-nuclear demonstration in Hyde Park, compared "the solemnity, the pervasive anger and anxiety, the grim determination to stop what they see as disaster" with U.S. protests against the Viet Nam War. For Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the controversy on nuclear defense in West Germany was both ubiquitous and cacophonous: "It swamps the pages of newspapers...
...peace movement in Britain also is growing at a remarkable pace. On Oct. 24, a crowd of more than 175,000 gathered in London's Hyde Park to call for the government not only to ban U.S. nuclear weapons but to give up its own, both ideas stoutly resisted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...that only districts with high voter turnout (white Irish and Italian precincts) are represented. Minority communities, like Roxbury and Mattapan, and isolated communities such as Charlestown, Allston-Brighton, and Roslindale have been excluded under the present system, they contend. But critics of the proposal, generally from South Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park and West Roxbury, have argued that they should not be punished for civic-minded voting habits...
...could lock forearms, Reed, 43, turned the contest into a genuine barroom donnybrook, with the brawlers flipping furniture and smashing beer bottles. Handcuffed and manacled, the actor was arrested on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct. He spent the night at Lamoille County's Hyde Park jail, then had to come up with $4,000 bail. Reed was commanded by the court to keep out of bars for a while, but the judge later modified the ruling, provided that the actor's drinking did not "dimmish his proper lawful behavior...