Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly court racist sentiment, but did concentrate on white audiences in the ethnic enclaves. Perk, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, seemed to be campaigning for mayor of Prague or Warsaw. His tactics nearly worked. Stokes' victory was narrow, 3,700 votes out of a total of 239,000, but four years ago his plurality was only...
Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role in the desegregation fight, a role that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed...
...well would-be beau Sid. The songs are pure artlessness carried to the level of high musical-comedy art. The melodic lines are as sweet as an innocent kiss and the lyrics ("Both Sid and me/ Like Company/ So if You're free/ We're home...") are as plain as the heroine and, for that reason, just as affecting. I only hope that Miss Simon drops a few stagey mannerisms (particularly a tendency to shoot her eyes what looks like two inches out of their sockets) that contribute nothing to her performance...
...Edgar Hoover's successor as FBI chief. "If I have made some people uneasy," Mollenhoff once said, "it's not really me that's bothering them. It's something else." If in the past a troubled conscience brought the discomfort, these days just plain Mollenhoff is enough...
...unfurled huge color posters of the Prime Minister. Reported TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin from Jerusalem: "They had the imperative about them of the command, 'Chicken soup is good for you-so eat.' " At 71, Mrs. Meir outcampaigned younger members of her party and charmed voters with her plain talk. "Even when there is peace," she told audiences, "I will always hold one thing against Nasser. He made killers out of our boys...