Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are undercurrents of ill-feeling despite the bipartisan support. The city administration is clearly miffed that Kennedy gets top billing in all the publicity, and one very high official dismisses the Kennedy corporations. "He's done the easiest part," says that official. "It'll all get swallowed up by the Model Cities program...
...card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago jail cell overnight. Though Rader was released the next day on $1,000 bond, raised by friends at Northwestern, he faced a possible five-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine for burning his draft card, and a possible...
Haiti probably has less to celebrate than any other country on earth. Yet last week, in a four-day binge that it could ill afford, it celebrated the 60th birthday and tenth anniversary in power of the man who has made the country the mess it is: Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's official President-for-Life and Renovator of the Nation. The task of working up a suitable celebration fell to Director General of Tourism Luc Albert Foucard, who was appointed to his job shortly after he married Duvalier's daughter Nicole last December. To prove himself...
Boarding the plane at Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Marlene Chasnov, 23, had an uneasy feeling that her 19-month-old son Craig was ill. And as the plane approached New York, the child began to have convulsions. "I stood up and screamed for someone to help me," she said. "There was only one passenger who didn't look at us as if we had leprosy. He got up and put his thumb in Craig's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue. Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said...
MANCHESTER even mishandles some of his own ill-conceived notions about the assassination. The manuscript is peppered, for example, with snide, venemous, often fantastic references to both the city of Dallas and the person of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas, Manchester argues, epitomizes all the noisome features of American life which buttress lawlessness and unreasoning violence. Because the city was Oswald's home base, Manchester constantly seems to imply that Dallas supported and encouraged Oswald's instability and volatility--that the wickedness of the city had something to do with the wickedness of the individual. But the argument is never made...