Word: madder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing of the Beat. So began Carson's wonderful travels. To those who follow Carson's tormented trail, Spain will always seem madder, Germany more maddening, and Italy more wonderful because Carson has been there. He proves that the world does have an escape hatch...
...successfully pushing through the legislature a bill to augment Democratic Governor Pat Brown's $3 billion state budget, speaker Unruh took advantage of a quorum-requiring "call of the house" to lock up foot-dragging Republicans overnight in the state capitol; he made the Republicans even madder by offering them the use of his own razor and shower bath if needed. Cried Republican State Chairman Caspar Weinberger, ordinarily a mild-mannered fellow: "These are tactics Stalin, Hitler and other dictators used...
...learn to govern? 2) Where did he get enough energy to come to this conclusion by himself?" Act of Despotism. Fernandes got away with the attack. But the country's new War Minister, General Jair Dantas Ribeiro, got sore when Imprensa carried his two memos; he got even madder when he read Fernandes' followup, Page One commentary: "Those two confidential dispatches had no secret. They just disclosed the War Minister's immense capacity for being contradictory and vain." That did it. The army claimed Fernandes had exposed a secret code as well as violated Brazil...
Look, No Horns. As for Ellender, he complained that he had been misquoted -but a transcript of his remarks snowed that he had sure enough said all those unkind things. His denial made some Africans even madder. In Southern Rhodesia the Bulawayo Chronicle, which first defended Ellender's right of free speech, now called him a "polecat" who lacks the "courage of his convictions...
That made Mike Di Salle even madder. The day after election, he sat down and wrote out a vituperative statement that he had mimeographed for distribution to newsmen. In it he attacked the publishers of papers that had opposed him as "petty kingmakers more interested in power than in the truth." He said he had "less respect" for Rhodes than anyone he had ever run against, declared the winner absolutely unqualified to hold public office. He also vowed that he would hunt for evidence of fraud in Rhodes's auditorship until the very day in January when Republicans would...