Word: ironbound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect $100 a week-in a good week-as personal profit. He is unmarried ("I'm all alone in this jungle," Smith told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool" jazz records, and is saving for a plate to replace his missing front teeth (lost in an accident years ago). Says Smith, a quiet and articulate man: "I got to tighten up my upper register...
...fill a vacancy on the nine-member Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and handles much civil rights litigation. Mississippi is the only state not currently represented on the court. Custom dictated that Johnson pick a Mississippian, and ironbound Senate tradition demanded that his choice be approved by the state's Senators-James Eastland, who happens to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and John Stennis. Given all the circumstances, Coleman seemed to be the best available...
...over and over. Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "I never dared be radical when young. For fear it would make me conservative when old." The new trend is youth's natural rebellion against conformity, and to many the liberalism of their New Deal-bred elders is the most ironbound conformity. "My parents thought Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the greatest heroes who ever lived," says the Y.A.F. chairman, Yale Law Student Robert Schuchman, 22. "I'm rebelling from that concept." Says President Roger Claus of Wisconsin's Conservative Club: "You walk around with your Goldwater button...