Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Texas Republican John Tower, 41, who in 1961 became the state's first post-Reconstruction G.O.P. Senator largely as a result of feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen?one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush?bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...
Look for symbols and esoteric meanings if you want. But if you do, you will be making "Alphaville" far deeper than Godard does. Godard is concerned with a contemporary world that is young, that lives, that is full of sex and violence and triteness that produces Batmen and Lone Rangers and Lemmy Cautions. Take what's there and enjoy it. Godard does. As Caution says, "Everything is screwy in this damn town...
...Lone Protection. Those who object only to bearing arms are classified 1-A-O and trained as Army medics; some 3,500 are now serving, scores of them in Viet Nam, where, almost to a man, they have won praise for their bravery under fire. Says one general: "There is the question of their courage. They have to prove themselves." They are quite capable of it. Said Medic Widtfeldt a few months before his death: "I feel the same as everyone else in combat-scared. My only protection is my faith...
...when they finally made it to Greenland, they weren't about to be stopped. The lone scoring drive began after a flubbed Dartmouth punt went out-of-bounds on Harvard...
Molly &the Babies. Yet Lyndon Johnson is a man of many characters and complex moods. While he found just the right touch in his speech on Europe, he achieved only bathos in his lone campaign foray into Newark, N.J. Pointedly failing even to shake hands with New York Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Frank O'Connor, who is in a tight race with Nelson Rockefeller, the President crossed the Hudson to boost New Jersey Senatorial Contender Warren Wilentz, who has little hope of defeating the incumbent liberal Republican, Clifford Case...