Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve years ago McNamara was president of a pipe-fitters' local and a member of the Detroit Board of Education. Today he is chairman of the Senate Public Works Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on the Aging and number two man on Labor and Public Welfare. He has become, in other words, a powerful man, contrary to his and everyone else's expectations, and he probably wants to remain powerful for the rest of his life. How long that will be no one can say; McNamara has been in bad health for years and is just stubborn enough...
Heartening though this decision is, its significance as a precedent is limited, for the circumstances of the Willie Brewster case were highly unusual. Brewster had never been involved in the civil rights movement; he was driving nome from his job at a local pipe factory at the time he was shot. The nightriders who killed Brewster had just heard a National States Rights Party speaker call for "bloodshed" if necessary to protect white men from Negroes and Communists. To add incentive to the search for the killers, Anniston's civic and business leaders offered a $21,000 reward...
Last year Brown was deluged by criticism when he spoke out on behalf of the Black Muslims ("the more commotion the better")-although he does not share their separatist beliefs. Cleveland Sportscaster John Fitzgerald advised him on the air to pipe down and stick to football. Later, buttonholing Brown in the Cleveland dressing room, he explained to him: "I've always admired you as a football player, Jim. I've never looked on you as a Negro." "That's ridiculous!" Brown snapped. "You have to look at me as a Negro. Look...
...children. Novelist William Faulkner, for instance, produced two volumes of verse. Republished under one cover after being out of print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...
...Lead-Pipe Cinch...