Word: paragraphed
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...court ruled that Congress had exceeded its power in forbidding passports to all U.S. Communists. Disturbing as their decision was to many Americans, the majority of the Justices were not ruling on the nature of Communism or its threat to the U.S.; what bothered them was one single paragraph in the Subversive Activities Control...
...Goldwater had scoffed at the same party platform that Ike now praised so highly by saying, "We lost on it." To make sure no one missed the point, Thayer's Tribune planted a column by Pundit Roscoe Drummond squarely alongside the Eisenhower text. Said Drummond's lead paragraph: "If former President Eisenhower can have his way, the Republican Party will not choose Senator Barry Goldwater as its 1964 presidential nominee." And the New York Times headlined its Page One analysis piece: STATEMENT BY THE GENERAL APPEARS TO FIT ALL IN RACE BUT GOLDWATER...
...That opening paragraph under U.S. BUSINESS fooled me for a minute. I thought maybe it was a new Ian Fleming saga of James Bond's exploits: you know-craggy face, fast car, exotic smokes...
...black nationalists, as well as the use of the interstate commerce clause, would similarly have rendered them rather less blunt and opionated than they might appear from your report. But I will let those matters pass in the hope that you will find the space to print the last paragraph of the talk, so that your readers will not have the impression that it was devoted to criticism of the civil rights movements, with which I am whole-heartedly in sympathy...
...bones and wagging tongue, Joe has been asked to whip up an autobiography in hopes that he will drop a few pearls about swine he forgot before. But Joe is taking the whole thing as a serious publishing venture, says a CBS newsman who got hold of the first paragraph of The Real Thing. "To begin with," writes Joe, "I must say I came from the poorest family on earth. As a boy I went barefoot most of the time and never did 1 receive anything at Christmas. I believed in Santa Claus and hung my stocking up, but never...