Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional view, is a perpetual state of war or potential war. When he decided to join George Wallace's campaign, LeMay entered a cloudier more complex political world in which he is less at home. Said Barry Goldwater a former Air Force Reserve major general who has known LeMay for years: "I hope he hasn't made a mistake, but I think he has." There was even flak from his mother-in-law "I idolize Curt," said 91-year-old Maude Maitland a staunch Republican, "but I'm very, very disappointed. Mihai Patrichi LeMay's boss...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...Chefs. Vanguard also brings foreign technicians to Taiwan for seminars and advanced studies in agriculture, health, sanitation and land reform. More than 5,000 have taken advantage of Taipei's offer. So well known has the program become in Africa that recently the Taiwanese were asked to extend their assistance to gastronomy: at the request of President Mobutu, two Taipei chefs flew off to Kinshasa to impress the Congolese with their skills...
Matter of Taste. At Esquire, Sorel introduced another series known as "The Spokesman." One such was Charles de Gaulle, dressed as a Puritan and carrying a Bible and a blunderbuss; the French President had opposed state payments for contraceptives on the ground that they would be used for pleasure rather than health. Last May, in the Atlantic, Sorel unleashed "Sorel's Unfamiliar Quotations," in which bulbous characters are linked with punnish captions. Under a sullen, bleary Frank Sinatra: "Mia culpa...
...strolling players who consider themselves collectively to be proponents of "guerrilla theater," Performing on street corners or on flatbed trucks, earning their keep by pass-the-hat collections, these dramatic revolutionaries have but one purpose: to "radicalize" their audiences into action and rebellion, Recently, three of the best-known guerrilla organizations -the Mime Troupe, New York City's Bread and Puppet Theater and California's El Teatro Campesmo-gathered at San Francisco State College for a five-day "theatrical orgy" of radical plays...