Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats should run Rose Kennedy for President. She is the only person who could make me switch parties...
...three-year-old daughter, Cornelia, wanders about the maze and Erpf has made it to the center in five minutes. For the uninitiate, mastering the maze can take half an hour of trial and error. Ayrton has provided no printed explanation or map to the solution. "If a person could walk in and figure it out," he explains, "I would feel I had failed...
...point. John Wayne has become one of the pop-artifacts of contemporary life. He carries with him the unmistakable aura of camp and comic strip, as if his conversation came in balloons. As if when he slugged the opposition there would issue forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars...
...Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject to a number of exceptions for relatives, young children and others) is punishable by a fine of up to $25 and as many as 30 days in prison...
...civilization, African and Christian." Later, in an address to the Uganda National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense agriculture! possibilities. Local industries must replace the exploitation of raw materials. The African villager must become the master of his own destiny...