Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often proposes legislation that he expects to be defeated-such as public-school aid, an urban affairs department at Cabinet level and a sweeping antirecession program-primarily to create campaign issues. To such men, Kennedy seems to be less interested in a bill's substance than in a label that appeals to voting blocs, such as the aged on medical care. More than one loyal Democrat is complaining that in his fascination for political maneuvering, Kennedy is neglecting the fundamental chore of giving active leadership to the Democrats on the hill. Even House Speaker John McCormack has repeatedly...
...Lillie Mae Colvin, 29, a Negro practical nurse, mother of three and pregnant, had filled the formula room's canister on Tuesday. She did this from one of two identical 20-gal. galvanized cans standing side by side in the kitchen, their lids marked with stick-on labels that said "sugar" and "salt'' (the salt label was torn). Mrs. Colvin was sure she had filled the canister from the can labeled sugar-but this might have contained salt, perhaps because the lids had been accidentally switched...
Eros is the by-blow of Ralph Ginzburg, 32, a Brooklyn-born freelance writer who first discovered the marketability of the sex label during a tour with Esquire Magazine. Ginzburg wrote an article on erotica that Esquire paid him for but decided not to print-partly on the ground of dullness. Fired later by the magazine, he expanded his article into a book, An Unhurried View of Erotica, which, he claims, sold 125,000 copies in hard cover and 150,000 in paperback. This response to what was little more than a bibliography of erotic books encouraged him to give...
...dispute over the drug, which must by law bear the label "may be habit-forming," broke out at a meeting of members of the Center March 15. Part of the controversy involves the question of whether the experimenter himself should be under the influence of the drug...
Legality: psilocybin must bear the label, "may be habit-forming," according to the Pure Food and Drug Act. It is, however, not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Narcotics Agency...