Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner read a news item that plainly indicated the people's choice: a city-wide sampling of registered Democratic voters showed that 88% would not support him should he run for re-election next November. Far from loosing thunderbolts of denunciation when newsmen asked for comment, Wagner dropped a yard-wide hint that he is ready to run for the exit if tapped for a job by the Kennedy Administration. "Being mayor." said Wagner, "is quite a drain on your health...
...Peking, winter, 1961. In frosty cold, endless queues line up in front of the few carts of vegetable peddlers. One item only is on sale: cabbage. For me even now its smell evokes Peking...
...most former of U.S. political bigwigs, wrote the Kennedy Administration last week urging U.N. membership for two Germanys and two Chinas, the United Press International dutifully dispatched the news to subscribing papers. In New York, the exhaustive ("All the News That's Fit to Print") Times ignored the item, and the tabloid Daily News put it on the obituary page...
...cocktail party). But this novel tells not of successful spivery but of a village innocence doggedly preserved amid fleshpots and sophistries-although the fleshpots are rather lean and the sophistries baffling only to Griff, the simple mathematician. Lydia Kilmartin, Eng. Lit., "smashing figure," is probably the most sophisticated item at Warbeck College; her specialty is getting colleagues' names wrong with comic intent and making outrageous sexual remarks at inappropriate times...
Lumpy Roads. A bill can bypass the Rules Committee by coming to the floor under "suspension of the rules," which permits only 40 minutes of debate and no amendments. But an important item of legislation has little prospect of getting by in this way, because suspension of the rules requires a two-thirds majority. Three times since Judge Smith became Rules Committee chairman in 1955, Sam Rayburn has tried to get a blocked bill past the Rules Committee through suspension of the rules, and all three times he failed...