Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...
When Mattie Schultz was caught in a San Antonio market, slipping $15 worth of ham, sausage and butter into her purse, she had a simple explanation: "I was hungry. I was desperate." Mrs. Schultz, 91, subsists on $233 a month, from Social Security and her late husband's military pension. She had once saved $5,000, but all except $10 was taken from her in 1973 by a swindler. Last month, after paying her rent and utilities, she had nothing left for food...
...late afternoon sun still seared the dusty streets of Marivan, a scramble of mud and stucco houses on a mountain slope near the Iraq border, as "solidarity" marchers arrived from Sanandaj, the Kurds' provincial capital (pop. 150,000). The more than 2,000 men, women and children had walked the 90 miles of gravel roadway from Sanandaj in four torturous days just so they could, as one of them bluntly put it, "tell the Tehran government to go to hell...
...late Kurdish leader General Mulla Mustafa Barzani once called the Kurds "the orphans of the universe," because they have never had a national homeland of their own. A handsome, high-spirited people, with dark, flashing eyes and chiseled features, they belong to the Sunni sect of Islam whereas most Iranians are Shi'ite Muslims. The trials of farming craggy mountainsides, where the summer temperatures soar above 100° and winter blizzards last for weeks at a time, have made the Kurds tough and independent...
...final bit of George's Island trivia, also connected with the Civil War. It was here that a group of ditch diggers composed John Brown's Body. Noticing the resemblance between the names of one of their company, John Brown, and the late abolitionist, they wrote the tune. Soon it had spread all over the island, but that was as far as it went until Abraham Lincoln heard a unit on paraxe detail in Boston playing the song. He liked the music more than the words, turned to Julia Ward Beecher for help, and the rest, as they...