Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, the only fellow who had an inkling was the fellow in the White House, and like a kid bursting with a delicious secret, he was dying to tell-but would not. The mounting suspense over the vice-presidential choice was just the sort of emotion that Lyndon Johnson likes to provoke. It was clear that until recently, the President himself had not definitely made up his mind, but it was just as plain late last week that he had finally made his decision. He sent word round to the broadcasting people, asking them to hold three minutes...
...suggestion that they ought to disclose their financial condition came from the Rules Committee, which had handled the kid-glove investigation of onetime Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Baker. The recommendation proposed that Senators and Senate employees earning more than $10,000 a year disclose periodically the sources-not the amount-of outside income that exceeded 50% of their Senate pay. But when the measure reached the floor for debate, the Senate responded with a howl. Leading the chorus was Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen...
...Kid Stuff...
...then arrested Hodes, though they did not tell him what the charge was. Several of them bit him in the ribs with their billy clubs, and one police officer stabbed Hodes in the leg with his own SNCC button, the Harvard junior reported last night; "you know," Hodes said, "kid stuff...
Teachers & Companions. All the children call their tutors by their first names. There is no discipline problem because the kids are excited at the notion of having high school students as their teachers and companions. One boy, shy and withdrawn, had trouble with arithmetic. For a week his tutor could make no progress with him; then one day the kid came in with a sheet of arithmetic problems he had found somewhere and worked out by himself...