Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major respect, the Senate code is firm: it precludes use of campaign funds for personal expenses, a la Dodd. It also requires Senators and Senate employees to list outside interests, property holdings, debts, gifts, etc. But these lists would be filed in sealed envelopes with the U.S. comptroller general, to be made public only by a majority vote of the six-man Committee on Standards and Conduct after charges of improper conduct had been brought and public hearings held...
...leader and prophet of "la Huelga," the California grape pickers' 35-month-old strike in the verdant San Joaquin Valley, Cesar Chavez, 41, has combined hard-knuckled organizing tactics with a brand of mysticism peculiarly his own. A Mexican-American who from boyhood worked in the vineyards himself, Chavez patched together his tatterdemalion National Farm Workers Association in 1965, organized scores of picket lines, boycotts, church meetings, marches and sing-ins to lift his people out of peonage...
...political weather vane for the national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
...across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...
Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...