Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that in Johnson's place, he would have "listened to the news and checked it out with one or two people to see whether it was accurate. And then I would have said, 'Let's keep informed, and we'll meet in the morning.'" It was at best ill-timed frivolity to needle the Administration, at worst an instance of absurd misjudgment. At the suggestion of more realistic advisers, McCarthy subsequently "amended" his statement to criticize Russia and make clear that he did con sider the invasion a serious matter...
Died. Paul Egan, 69, mayor of Aurora, Ill., from 1953 to 1961, whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora's entire police force (they refused to quit), called Khrushchev to enlist Red cops (no answer), and once demanded federal troops to put down an insurrection in the city council...
...Father, the Bigot. Despite such evidence, the discovery that their own children are smoking marijuana still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter...
Public attention usually does Scientology more harm than good. In Australia, a 1965 government inquiry branded Hubbard a "fraud" and Scientology "evil, fantastic and impossible, its principles perverted and ill-founded, its techniques debased and harmful." In 1963, the U.S. Federal Drug Administration raided the cult's church in Washington, D.C., and seized all its E-meters on the grounds that Scientology falsely promised the cure of "neuroses, psychoses, schizophrenia and all psychosomatic illnesses." Last week the British Home Office announced that 800 Scientologists planning to arrive in England this week for their international congress will not be allowed...
...born and raised in Chicago, and got a fine education in the public school system. I had no trouble getting into Northwestern and going on through its medical school. The decline of the Chicago public school system came later. Today, many Negroes wishing to go to medical school are ill prepared educationally. Even to be considered, the Negro must be in the top 1% of his class...