Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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State laws requiring a license to buy a gun pose a more serious problem. The NRA argues that these laws allow local law enforcement officers to determine who should and who should not own a gun. The officers would, the argument goes, decide to let few if any citizens own guns...
Hersh, of course, was caught in the middle of the crossfire between press and McCarthy staff. A former Associated Press reporter, he often reddened at the errors of local McCarthy workers. "NTTL"--Never Trust The Locals--Hersh sometimes muttered during the campaign. Such organizational problems may have eased Hersh's decision to resign a week before the primary, when he felt that McCarthy was not campaigning hard enough in the Milwaukee ghetto...
Cornell, however according to its graduate dean, "cannot function without" those teaching assistants who now face the draft. Cooke said last night that Cornell will ask local boards to grant II-A (occupational) deferments and will appeal if they are refused. "We don't know what will happen, but we are going to ask for them because we absolutely must have them," he said...
AFTER years of printing nothing or nothing but the juvenalia of great poets and the margenalia second-water ones, the Advocate has this year turned its attention back to the local community and our generation. So even if one refused to acknowledge any other virtue in the present issue, its editors would still have to be praised for continuing this happy policy of relying on undergraduate contributors. Nor, in fact, is the issue without other merits, notably a poem by Rachel Hadas and a short story by Alice E. Dorcas (the pseudonym for a sophomore in Lowell House...
...affair was billed as a "First Ladies Luncheon." Seated at more than 62 tables in the sumptuous red-gold-blue Grand Ballroom were prominent doctors, musicians, presidents of department stores, architects, and lawyers, ambassadors and ambassadors' wives, wives of governors, women housing commissioners, women officials in local, state, and federal government, women in life insurance, women in publishing, and the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange. There were elegant ones, and dowdy ones, and young ones, and black ones, and behatted ones. The ladies were fed on seagull soup, delicate chicken breasts with green noodles and pickled...