Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressmen have names like Pucinski, Kluczynski and Rostenkowski, he answered a question about the dearth of Negroes in his audiences by saying: "Very frankly, when I am moving in a crowd I don't look and say, 'Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought -with some success-to make light of the whole thing by referring to himself as "Greek, er, Grecian...
...Bates has been pleading with his constituents to "unload your guns"-literally. Warren residents, predominantly of Eastern European and Italian descent, have been apprehensive ever since last year's uprising in Detroit. Yet Warren has had a decreasing crime rate, and Bates observes: "We have no problems with hippies, yippies or zippies." George Wallace draws strong support in Warren. Among Negroes in the surrounding area, the word is out that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe...
Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
...leaflets. In Moscow, Miss Rovere and Papworth were questioned for more than five hours, then deported unceremoniously to London next morning. Poland expelled its five Danes almost as quickly. But Hungary and Bulgaria were not so hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations useful? Miss Rovere, safely back in London, summed it up this way: "I wish that I had had a real chance to talk to people, but I think...
Miss Blueye and her friend--an Italian citizen living in West Germany--were arrested on August 11, the State Department official said. The State Department knew nothing of the incident until early September, when Miss Blueye's parents, concerned because she had not returned on her Harvard Charter flight, contacted them...