Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposing his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal members of the Senate Judiciary Committee embarrassed both Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. and his sponsors when they charged the South Carolina jurist with conflict of interest. Their disclosures about his business connections and stock purchases raised serious questions about Haynsworth's judicial ethics, shook the confidence of his supporters and gave his opponents an unexpected advantage in their fight to prevent his confirmation. But as hearings on Haynsworth's appointment concluded last week, it became obvious that the liberal advantage had been only temporary...
...crown of glittering and priceless jewels," was Arthur Houghton Jr.'s metaphor. The president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was describing a gift that is soon to become part of the Met's permanent exhibits: the art collection of the late Robert Lehman, the investment banker who died in August. It was quite a birthday gift for the museum's 100th anniversary. The value of the greatest bequest in the Metropolitan's history has been estimated to be $100 million, but it is probably much higher; many of the nearly...
...with a sweet, sassy authority that is just right for a variety-hour headlmer. She sang Those Were the Days with a panache that made the Mary Hopkin original seem lifeless. She played willing straight girl to Impressionist David Frye's show-stealing rendition of William F. Buckley Jr. She starred in "Sugar Hill," a slice-of-life sketch that will be a feature of the series; the opener was more pungent than The Goldbergs, if not in a class with The Honeymooners...
...LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. by Coretta Scott King. 372 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
When they first met for a lunchtime date in Boston, she thought he was short and unimpressive. But she soon noticed that "he became better-looking as he talked, so strongly and convincingly." Coretta Scott soon found, too, that "M. L. King Jr.," as he called himself, made quick decisions. By the end of the date, he had told her that she "had everything I have ever wanted in a wife." As she observes in this fond memoir of their 15 years together, "it was as if he had no time for mistakes, as if he had to make...