Word: mems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move on to California. There he organized churches of God in Bakersfield, San Jose and Sunnyvale. He also became a relatively successful contractor, prosperous enough to hire people to read to him from the Bible. "My wife and other people would read the verses to me, and I would mem-brize them," he says. "I have a good membry, and sometimes I would stay up all night long just listnin' to the Scriptures. I membrized the Bible from Genesis all the way through, and then I realized I was only helping Peter, Paul and John preach their story...
Mitchell was not universally popular in the Nixon entourage. He signed on later than some of the charter mem bers, and a few of the campaign aides found his no-nonsense attitude auto cratic. He stayed high in Nixon's esteem, however, and soon after the election the boss pegged him for Attorney General, refusing to take no for an answer. It will be Mitchell's task to make good on one of Nixon's most specific campaign pledges: to check the rising crime rate by improving law enforcement and related services. Mitchell's personal views...
Aktie got its start early last summer, and has since attracted the support of Dutch religious, labor and political groups of the center and non-Communist left. Diekerhof himself is a mem ber of the Dutch Labor Party executive, and active in the New Left. He and other Aktie leaders have organized street theaters, panels and teach-ins in hired halls all over The Netherlands during the past few weeks. Last week in Driebergen, near Utrecht, one listener wondered why Aktie was not making similar efforts with the Soviet Union. Diekerhof answered: "We do not know how to influence...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...judges shredded Richberg's bylaws, which they labeled "transparently meretricious." As for the club's mem bers, they said, "in the interest of fellowship they have held no meetings; in pursuit of culinary excellence, their food is the same as in its pre-club days; and in their concern for efficiency, they have turned over all profits and operations to one man." Of that man, the judges concluded: "Richberg wants us to believe that he was cuisine-conscious but not pigment-minded...