Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellite. Four times he went up to Capitol Hill for hearings on the war, and despite his well-deserved reputation for wizardry at handling Congressmen, some of the sessions were so grueling that even Buddha-faced Rusk came out looking haggard and upset. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark after the Foreign Relations Committee had kept Rusk on the griddle for three hours: "The poor guy had a pretty hard time between the hawks and the doves. I don't know who gave him the hardest time. The hawks were unhappy, the doves were unhappy, and Rusk...
...whom have family incomes below the Federal Government's $3,000 poverty line. "The tax represents a trap, not a test," he asserted. "A person who cannot afford three meals a day is going to think twice about paying for the right to vote." Negro Attorney Joseph Jordan noted that no member of his race has served in the Virginia legislature since the pretax days of Reconstruction. The poll tax, he said, had removed Negro legislators as effectively as "a magic wand...
...Patrick's Day 40 years ago, Michael Joseph Quill, late of County Kerry and the Irish Republican Army, landed at Ellis Island. He had flipped a coin, it was said, to decide between New York and Melbourne, and New York won-in a manner of speaking...
...native of Tulsa, Davis, 56, is a florid, old-fashioned kind of orator who held pastorates at Chickasha, Okla., St. Joseph, Mo., and Wichita Falls, Texas (where he first preached to Johnson in 1959), before coming to National City in 1961. Even without presidential patronage, it was a flattering call. National City's worshipers have traditionally included Congressmen and Senators; among those who frequently attend these days are Generals Omar Bradley and Maxwell Taylor...
...religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic. Stanford's religion course on ecumenism is taught jointly by Presbyterian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman...