Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential name. In the Texas state capital of Austin-an hour's drive from Johnson City-there will be the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the University of Texas. About the only local institution that does not commemorate L.B.J. is Johnson City itself, which was named for his pioneer forebears...
Died. Conrad Richter, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Town), who wrote of U.S. pioneer life in 20 books, including The Trees, The Light in the Forest; of a heart attack; in Pottsville, Pa. With a sure ear for its speech and a shrewd eye for its manners, Richter brought early America to life. The cowboys, Indians and farmers of his novels are more than fictional characters; they are, as one critic noted, explorers who give the "truest picture of the everyday realities of frontier life...
...begins the cheery letter to Oregon voters, "we have a winner. Bob Packwood is expected to beat Wayne Morse by 28,180 votes." The figure is an invention; the result may not be. Morse, 68, is in real trouble. Lawyer Robert Packwood, 36, the great-grandson of an Oregon pioneer, trailed badly when the race began. Last week he nosed ahead of Morse in a state wide poll commissioned by Portland's Oregonian. Only four-tenths of a percentage point separated the contenders; the outcome now probably hangs on the verdict of a sliver-thin 4.8% of voters...
...intention to resign. A product of Boston's once-Irish urban ghetto, he was named Archbishop of the city in 1944, and subsequently proved to be one of the great school and church builders of American Catholicism. Affectionately human and totally unpredictable, Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from the age limit suggested for episcopal resignations by Pope...
...often been with America. As the pioneer vanguard of the young Republic swept westward, Americans were gradually confronted by an embarrassing discrepancy between political dreams and everyday realities. There was on the one hand the agrarian, egalitarian Eden of their early (often mythical) memory, and on the other, the violent have-and-have-not realities of an incipient industrial state. At the end of the 19th century, this conflict-exacerbated by a civil war and a massive infusion of immigrants-had dislocated millions of people, to say nothing of their ideals. Where was America going? Had a continent been laid...