Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy. Former Governor Buford Ellington, 59, a friend of the President's who resigned in January as director of the Office of Emergency Planning, faced wealthy Nashville Lawyer John Jay Hooker Jr., 35, whose style is Kennedy with a drawl, a manner he acquired from Bobby and the late President. While Ellington stressed his experience, Hooker would intone, his right hand chopping the air: "I want every man, woman and child to pass the word that a new day has dawned for Tennessee...
...care. In such situations, the doctor can only try to persuade, though the psychotic is not notably amenable to having himself locked up. Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until it is too late...
Colonial Reminder. At the zenith of Britain's imperial power in the late 1800s, the Colonial Office ruled more than 100 colonies in every quarter of the globe. It might, in fact, have ruled more, but the office got off to a bad start. It was created in 1660 as the Council of Foreign Plantations to supervise British settlements in the Western Hemisphere. After the American colonists revolted-partly in protest against the unenlightened policies of Colonial Secretaries-the Colonial Office was abolished for nearly 75 years, and its functions reverted to other ministries. When the Colonial Office...
Homosexuality is something of a tradition in backward Yemen, where Bedouin herdsmen roam the rocky hills for months on end with only each other and their animals for company. Male brothels flourish in San'a, the capital, and the late Imam Ahmad, who ruled the country for 14 years before his death in 1962, established an international reputation for overzealous camaraderie...
...dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take of all, many Brazilians of late can no longer even afford their traditional daily flow of cafèzinhos, or tiny cups of black coffee, which are up from 10 cruzeiros...