Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing phalanx of Republicans bears the New Breed label. Some are more conservative than others, but all are reaching for answers to the questions that many Republicans of an older generation were all too willing to ignore. In the Senate, there are Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Massachusetts' Ed Brooke; in the House, Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld and Texas' George Bush. The statehouses provide the largest contingent, for it is the Governors who most directly confront the nagging problems of urban America. There are New York's Rockefeller, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Pennsylvania's Ray Shafer, Rhode Island's John...
...delegates of either party to their state organizations was under $240 a year; less than 30% gave as much as $500. What really marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether base or altruistic, that makes him feel far more entitled to shape the political process than his long-indifferent neighbors...
...people," reads a sign in a once privately owned shop. Loudspeakers shatter the soft night air, calling the faithful to a "solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation is largely by bus. Gasoline rationing has virtually emptied the streets of cars, except those rusting at curbside, idle and unusable...
...President's old friends, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, objects to the lame-duck label. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Johnson's Supreme Court nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Dirksen fulminated: "I find that term lame duck as applied to the President of the U.S. an entirely improper and offensive term...
Simon Says. The bubble-gum trend has been puffed up largely by a 25-year-old former actor and rock-'n'-roll singer named Neil Bogart. Last year, as general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...