Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared at four news conferences and a TV interview, and shook about 5,000 hands. "He showed us," drawled a Wyoming Republican, "that he really doesn't have horns." Semantic Duel. Even more important in the dehorning process is Rockefeller's earnest effort to neutralize the "liberal" label that frightened many Republicans the last time around. Whenever he can, he makes it clear that he feels that he and his program have been miscast in the semantic duel between liberal and conservative. Says he: "I think those words -liberal and conservative-have little meaning in relation to present...
...Severance of Connection: in language, the boot. This is the official label for the College action against students with grades. Anything lower than a of one C- and two D's places the student in danger of having his connection severed. This happens to approximately 130 students (including upperclassmen) each year. are almost never asked to at midyear...
...York's two G.O.P. Senators share more than a party label, a liberal philosophy and a geographic bond. After taping a TV interview at a Washington sound studio, balding Senior Senator Jacob Javits, 58, and white-thicketed Junior Senator Kenneth Keating, 62. celebrated their common birthday-May 18-by puffing out the candles on a pair of personalized cakes. Thoughtful to a fault, Keating came up with a special gift for campaign-bound Colleague Javits, up for re-election this fall: two packets of foot balm...
...thump out the latest hits almost as fast as they come over the Voice of America's unjammed "Music U.S.A." broadcasts, which thousands of Russians record on tape. There are status-conscious college kids who try to impress compatriots by pretending they are tourists, usually Amerivantsy. Some even label themselves "local foreigners," call other baron (good guys) in their set by secret American names hybridized from Hollywood, e.g., Audrey Monroe, Charlee Taylor. A good many more-sober young Russian intellectuals scorn such fantasies. But they too look to the West, avidly devour the works of top Western authors...
...from FCC Chairman Newton Minow, stood an unlikely figure: Investment Banker Armand Grover Erpf, 64. In 26 years as a partner in Manhattan's prestigious Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades & Co.. elfinlike Armand Erpf has displayed an uncanny nose for investment opportunities that has led fellow financiers to label him "a professionals' professional.'' But whenever possible. Erpf likes to combine commercial profit with intellectual advancement-and in his eminently successful pursuit of both goals he has made himself perhaps Wall Street's closest approximation of Renaissance...