Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth the trouble to start a polemic, since the struggle that all Cubans have ahead of them does not permit me to lose time clearing up stories without foundation. As our apostle José Martí well said: "He who goes in search of mountains does not stop to pick up stones in the road...
Lyndon Johnson should have been sitting as pretty as a butterfly in a garden ol petunias. All he had to do was flit over to the Democratic National Convention this month, pick up his nomination by acclamation, name his choice for vice-presidential candidate - and he was off and running. But last week, with the convention only four weeks off, Politician Johnson sensed trouble. He saw the possibility that he might lose control of the one big decision left to the convention - the choice of his running mate...
...Kennedy, and lately Bobby has been doing right well. Last March a federal court in Chattanooga convicted Teamster Boss James R. Hoffa of jury tampering, fined him $10,000 and sentenced him to eight years in prison. Hoffa was freed on appeal, but he had barely enough time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that one ended last week, after 90 days and 42,000 pages of testimony, Hoffa was nailed again on four counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in stir...
...also the question of how long American opinion will accept being told that the war is endless, or as a U.S. official in Saigon puts it: "Only a fool would pick a date when we can consider the job done. Three years? Five years? Ten? Fifteen? You make your own bets." One even suspects that in officialdom there is a tendency to take the war for granted. Some Administration policymakers are fond of pointing out that more Americans are killed in traffic accidents in Washington, D.C.. each year than in the Viet Nam war-while adding, with more logic...
Subs & Walking Wounded. It was hard to pick a hero or a heroine-or even narrow it down to a dozen. Tennessee State University's Edith McGuire, determined to make newsmen eat "all those terrible articles about us last year," led the way to a U.S. sweep in both the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Cleveland's Eleanor Montgomery launched herself 5 ft. 71 in. up and over the high-jump bar, thus ending the meet's longest string of personal wins (five straight) by Russia's Taisia Chenchik...