Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never disrespect a woman no matter how she comports herself; remember your mother is a woman." On racial prejudice: "People are people; you take them as you find them." On honesty: "If you can't tell me something, all right; but don't come and tell me something that isn't true...
Eastern's New York-Washington shuttle may be in for a fight before long. "We see these guys standing at our gates with clipboards, making notes," says one Eastern man in Washington. "We know who they are." Eastern takes the position that the Jet Express isn't any way to run an air shuttle. Striking back, its own ads are featuring a stewardess who asks: "Coffee, tea or planes...
...extraordinary brutality of our means? And whether we can maintain the freedom of the Vietnamese by killing them and their choice--their right to choose their own government--by subjecting them to a more significant degree of coersion than any country of that size has ever been subjected to. Isn't it possible that a war that can only be fought and won at such a terrible human cost ought not to be fought at all? May I just say very briefly that I don't want to be told that this war is ugly and that all wars...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...
Likely Witness. "The 1968 campaign pivots on me," said Powell. "There isn't anybody in the Democratic Party who can run next year who won't be in trouble unless I'm seated." But would he actually run for the presidency himself? "I'm watching the mail...