Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welfare v. Crime. Once in a while he indulged in campaign high jinks, such as in Oregon, Ill., where he waggled a pair of corncobs behind Wife Peggy's ears. But mostly, Barry was all business, and wherever his chartered Boeing 727 jet, the Yia Bi Kin (Navajo for House in the Sky), touched down, Goldwater ripped into the Democrats. He accused them of planning to dismantle U.S. defenses, joked that the Air Force might soon need "Hertz rent-a-bombers," repeatedly attacked Lyndon Johnson for listing prosperity, justice and peace, "but not freedom," as his goals...
Whether, as the believers in Europe hope, the stirrings of new national life are the prerequisite for a larger Europe or simply the jigsaw puzzle fragmenting hopelessly anew, the fact remains that Europeans are becoming more and more their own men, for good or ill...
...certain of what's good for their fellow man. Labor unions have attacked lotteries as a pernicious tax on the poor, businessmen have deplored their tendency to tie up huge sums of money, and moralists have frowned on trying to get something for nothing. But for good or ill, in one form or another, the lottery has been pressed into service for many a worthy cause-from financing the American Revolution to (in the form of bingo) the endowment of U.S. churches...
Always a Bloody Nose. Tough words. Tough man. He has to be, growing up as he did in East St. Louis, Ill., the youngest of nine children born to John Bauer, an Austrian immigrant who turned to bartending after he lost a leg working in an aluminum mill. Money was scarce around the Bauer household: he wore baby clothes made out of old feed sacks. In junior high school, Hank weighed only 102 Ibs., and his sister Mary begged him to give up smoking: "That's the reason you're not growing," she insisted. Hank kept right...
...little brother, Hank,' " laughs Bauer, by then a strapping 190-lb. six-footer. "I tapped him on the shoulder. 'That's me.' He took one look and said, 'Damn, you've growed.' " Menendez instantly offered him a tryout with the Quincy, Ill. Gems, a Class B Yankee farm club. Terms: $175 a month, a $25 raise if he made the team, plus a $250 bonus. Bauer went home to pack...