Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golden Age of subversion" is over, says Editor William F. Buckley Jr., and he almost seems to regret it. Gone are traitors of the magnitude of Alger Hiss, witnesses of the eloquence of Whittaker Chambers. Still, today's radical resurgence, thinks Buckley, has created a swarm of lesser subversives who bear close watching. To keep an eye on them, he has started a four-page newsletter, Combat, to be published twice a month...
Combat is staffed by noted anti-subversives left over from the Golden Age. Its editor is Theodore Lit, who used to work with the late Fulton Lewis Jr. and was senior editor of the Conservative Book Club. Research is handled by Ruth Matthews, widow of J. B. Matthews, the ex-fellow traveler who kept the House Un-American Activities Committee liberally supplied with names. Chief consultant is Eugene Lyons, a recently retired Reader's Digest senior editor who has written extensively on the Communist menace...
Ending a New England vacation, Dr. Jesse James Pone Jr. was driving home to Westbury, Long Island, when he heard a radio report of a double shooting in New Cassel, only a couple of miles from Westbury. At that very moment, said the radio, the man with the gun was barricaded in a basement laundry room, where police had been besieging him for hours. They dared not use force, because the man was threatening to kill the two-year-old girl whom he was holding as hostage. What really gripped Pone's attention was the gunman's name...
...modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...
Portly, cigar-puffing Pierre, 43, owns an eighth of The Factory, the swinging Los Angeles nightclub that he founded last year with Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Anthony Newley, Paul Newman and four other investors. Although he has just sold his small interest in the San Diego Chargers, a top-ranking team in the American Football League, Salinger remains a director of National General Productions, the motion-picture producing arm of National General Corp. But Salinger's chief concern today is finance. He is chairman of Great America Management & Research Co. International (GRAMCO), which controls a fast-growing, Nassau...