Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Johnson fell ill, it was "an upper respiratory infection." Last week, as more Washington bigwigs fell prey to swarming viruses, Washington gossip dubbed the disease "executive flu" and blamed its spread on too many people being crammed into tight spaces-such as the White House dance floor. To most victims, the trouble remains an unglorified bad cold. By any name, and of whatever severity, it is still a mystery...
...Ill at Ease. Mclntire obtained copies of the letters, which by law became a matter of public record once the FCC received them, and published a selection of them in his weekly Christian Beacon. The FCC thereupon received 900 more letters, 95% of them urging it to grant the broadcasting license to the seminary. The seminary wants to run the station as a commercial enter prise, but would allocate about five hours a day to religious programs, including Mclntire's daily "20th Century
Some of the clergymen who asked the FCC to deny Mclntire's seminary a broadcasting license seemingly felt ill at ease. "I must confess that in the interest of fairness this man's point of view should be heard," wrote the Rev. Manuel C. Avila Jr. of the Springfield, Pa., Baptist Church. But Avila thought that Mclntire should not have the right to control the entire broadcasting content of a station. The complaints say that Mclntire is grossly biased and twists facts, but the FCC notes that he offers the individuals he attacks time on his programs...
Glory & Dedication. At 46, Iconoclast Smith has climbed up the "professional progress chart" he offers in his book just as fast as the mythical Conformist Goodfellow. The pastor of the 2,200-member Wesley Methodist Church in Bloomington, Ill., Smith is a trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University, has a rich cherry-red rug in his office, drives a red Dodge convertible and aspires to own a Jaguar sedan. A few times a year he takes his blonde wife Betty, whom he married for "irrelevant reasons," to New York for a round of Broadway shows and dinner at Lu-chow...
...speech by Michigan Governor George W. Romney, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. this afternoon, has been cancelled. The governor is ill and is unnable to leave Lansing...