Word: mr
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Also symptomatic of the public pressure on Viet Nam policy was the response of the parents of a Navy corpsman killed at Con Thien, near the bloodily contested Demilitarized Zone. Returning a letter of condolence sent them by President Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Laning of Muskegon, Mich., wrote: "We cannot in good conscience accept your letter of sympathy because we believe that you, as President of this great country, are in part responsible for the death of our son because of your refusal to permit our airmen to bomb strategic targets in North Viet Nam." The doubt was reinforced...
...else yet has. They are, for a start, apolitical. They have never written a protest song. Except, perhaps for "Taxman." Written when the government was skimming off 90 per cent of their earnings, it is a song in which they wagged a scrupulously bipartisan, yet threatening, finger: "Oh-hoh Mr. Wilson, oh-hoh Mr. Heath...
...Kirk: "Mr. Brown, we welcome you to Florida. If you are here in good spirits, I'm glad you are here. Are you here in good spirits...
Though Brown repeatedly urged Negroes to arm themselves, Kirk said afterward that he had not violated a two-week-old state law that imposes a two-year prison sentence for inciting a riot. Debate, said the Governor, "is our way of life. If Mr. Castro, who is only 90 miles away, comes to Florida, I'll debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought...
...real lion of Newport society this summer, the most talked-about and sought-after visitor in town, the guest without whose presence no party can truly be called a success, is a normally gregarious fellow named Emil Mosbacher Jr. Unfortunately, Mr. Mosbacher regrets. His appointment book is full. He is dating a lady named Intrepid, and she is a most demanding mistress...