Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though the differences were not broad, it would be a bitter pill for Democrat Kennedy to have to accept a Republican civil rights package. But at week's end White House aides were busy trying to draft a compromise package. Still, Judiciary's Senior Republican McCulloch was hopeful. "There is more evidence," said he, "of a desire to write legislation in this field, where legislation is desperately needed, than there has been in a long time. The disposition in both parties to accept responsibility without relation to the partisan issues or benefits involved is better." Added...
...unity, no true alliance and no real progress." The Administration has polished off Latin American problems-"as indeed the whole world's problems"-as "political sloganry. They are not solved; they are merely salved, by talk, talk, and more talk. Patch a crisis there; prescribe a pill somewhere else; make a concession here, there, the next place; promise, promise, promise; spend, spend, spend; elect, elect, elect, elect...
...City also lures a hardier type: the sport fisherman. Hotel phone operators spot him easily: he is the fel low who asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat, headed for the Jack Spot, a ten-square-mile expanse of shoal water with one simple claim to fame: there, each summer, congregates the densest concentration of white marlin...
...much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
...Julie Payne, 23, daughter of Actor John Payne, professes to look on the movie industry as one long bitter pill, but after going through five drama coaches, has turned in a creditable performance in The Best of Everything...