Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarked, "because if they gave you an idea which wasn't completely natural to your thinking, the draft boards would probably notice an inconsistency and your claim would be jeopardized." Draft counselors ask the disturbing questions which draft boards are liable to ask. Indeed, the AFSC has held mock draft board hearings to prepare COs' for the type of cross-examination which they can expect...
...fact, as Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset observes, they are "caught up in the myth that J.F.K. was a radical President, and would have done all sorts of things, bypassing the older generation." By contrast, the Now People almost universally mock Lyndon Johnson -as Leonard laquinta, 22, of Kenosha, Wis., puts it, for his "bluffs, come-on gimmicks and intellectual dishonesty...
...wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks the audience for not knowing what the first...
...party in Arkansas has not and will not become an arm of the right-wing crusade or of the other extreme." His slogan: "Win with Win." In the end, more than 54% of the voters decided to do just that. (He is particularly proud of his showing in school mock elections, in which students gave him 77%.) More significant for the Arkansas party's future, the G.O.P. this year fielded 520 candidates -more Republicans than have run in all Arkansas elections combined since Reconstruction-and elected 163, or 31%. The other winners included the Lieutenant Governor, a Congressman, three...
Window-Washer Technology. Careful preparation made the difference. Fitted out in a" Gemini pressure suit that made him neutrally buoyant in water and thus simulated weightlessness, Aldrin spent a total of a dozen hours underwater in a research pool in Baltimore (TIME, Sept. 30). Maneuvering around a submerged mock-up of Gemini 12, he rehearsed his assign ments, learning to pace himself properly...