Word: kooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Times Reporter-Columnist Paul Coates, 44, specializes in sentimental stories about the oddball and the offbeat. In 18 years of reporting, he has become familiar to just about every criminal, cop and kook in California...
...Black Liberation plotters, things seemed to be going swimmingly. Little did they know that in their midst was an undercover agent: big Ray Wood, not a pro-Castro kook at all but a New York rookie cop. Last summer he was taken from his classes at the police academy, ordered to infiltrate left-wing groups like the Black Liberation Front that at the time were suspected of fomenting Harlem riots. Wood spent hours plodding picket lines and insulting cops, managed to gain Collier's confidence, and joined the conspirators' inner circle. He kept a daily diary...
...satin negligees from the thrift shop. Funny girl. She also has a weakness for $1,200 South American skunk furs, for man-tailored suits that she designs herself, and other Barbrous whatsits that make fashion's top camp followers whinny for joy. As a walking encyclopaedia of haute kook, she was nominated for the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1964 Book of the Year by Fashion Consultant Eleanor Lambert, who called her the embodiment of "the nonconformist spirit." In Los Angeles, though, a couturier who calls himself Mr. Blackwell ungallantly volunteered that Streisand looks more like "an unsuccessful hitchhiker...
...think it's a problem of ours," said Massachusetts' Governor-elect John Volpe. Washington's promising young Governor-elect Daniel Evans warned against Republicans who "insist on tagging labels such as 'liberal,' 'moderate,' 'conservative,' and 'kook' on each party member," and who want to "purge those within the party who disagree...
Statistics tell only half truths, however. The most consistent indication from the survey was that neither candidate had much appeal as a father. In less polite terms, most of the Cliffies agreed with whoever said the choice was "between a crook and a kook...