Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposition on the November ballot for voter approval of Lindsay's new civilian-dominated police-review board, which has come under heavy attack by conservatives who consider it a crimp in police efficiency. Lindsay and Kennedy, together with New York's elder statesman, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, have joined forces to support the board. It is the kind of impeccable cause that neither of the look-alike liberals can afford to pass...
Both candidates are relying heavily on outside help. Last week Teddy Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey stumped for Shapp. Richard Nixon and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits have spoken for Shafer, Scranton has scheduled 40 speeches, and Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has given him vigorous support. This week Bobby Kennedy will campaign for Shapp; Shafer will counter with Dwight Eisenhower, who will play host at Gettysburg to a reunion of Shafer's old PT boat squadron...
...Francisco's Jacob Krachmalnick, 44, has played first fiddle in Philadelphia and Amsterdam, spent one year as an artist-in-residence at the University of California, and then fled ("Everybody sits around on their tenures; it's no place for professionals") to the San Francisco. The orchestra's 30-week season suits him perfectly, since it gives him time to tour with his chamber-music trio and spend lucrative summers playing film scores in Hollywood...
When crusty, 80-year-old Judith Pedlock visited London, she wrote a postcard to her daughter Gertrude reporting that the weather was rainy, that the stiffness had left her right knee, and that she was bringing back to the U.S. a Mr. Jacob Ellenbogan, whom she intended to marry. The news infuriated the wealthy Pedlock family down to the third and fourth generations. Mama must be off her rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation...
...Many have said that the 'white backlash' was just a surfacing of latent feelings of hostility toward the Negro," New York's Senator Jacob Javits told an audience in Harlem. "I disagree. It was the sudden violence, the call to reverse racism, and the inconoclastic demagoguery of a few that have threatened and frightened the white community almost to the point where right and reason become secondary to visions about self-preservation...