Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mad Scramble. The occasion was almost a national holiday for Cuba, where thousands queued up around bookstores waiting for their free copy of the book and Radio Havana poured out endless plugs for it. Castro practically had his choice of publishers for editions outside Cuba, has already authorized five other...
The U.S. has seldom had occasion to look north to Canada for political excitement. Yet last week Americans could envy Canadians the exuberant dash of their new Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, along with intellect and political skill, exhibits a swinger's panache, a lively style, an imaginative...
Wine & Mead. Fortas is something of an expert on French wine, distills his own mead on occasion, and whips up an excellent fondue. For "light reading" he is currently keeping on his reading table Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra, Willie Morris' North Toward Home, and Giuseppe di Lampedusa's...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 52, is a man of few words, his favorite one normally being the all-purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney...
Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some...