Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tribune's Roscoe Drummond, "is that Mr. Johnson is in the process of destroying the presidential press conference as Washington correspondents have known it for 32 years." Wrote New York Times Associate Editor James Reston: "He has not yet found time to clarify his foreign policies or the proper forum in which to articulate them, and this is hurting his Administration both at home and abroad." Lamented New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis: "The most marked difference between the Johnson Administration and others in our lifetime is the lack of trustworthy news leaks as to what...
...Case of the Month Club." He was among the era's loudest liberals. He toiled for the N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
...charges of misconduct primarily because of apathy within RGA itself, Nancy Chodorow '66 alleged yesterday. She noted that there had been no volunteers when she asked for help in running the elections last fall. "I had no control over the elections beyond informing the RGA delegates of the proper procedure; I couldn't run the whole thing myself," she said...
Ranger VIII hit the ten-mile target at the correct speed, set itself at the proper angle to the sun and the earth, and kept in tight communication with its ground-control stations. About 17 hours after launch, the command came from its masters at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to prepare for the critical mid-course maneuver. Dutifully Ranger writhed in space, turning its gleaming golden body as it was told. It fired its small rocket engine for 59 seconds, and when it had writhed back again to cruising attitude, JPL scientists predicted that it would hit inside...
...dozen years, Dr. Richard Doll, Britain's most famed physician-statistician, had been testing and comparing a dozen treatments for gastric ulcers (those in the stomach proper). Sadly he had concluded that no drugs helped an ulcer to heal, though peace of mind, bed rest and nonsmoking did some good. Then a drug company offered Dr. Doll something called carbenoxolone, which is a chemical modification of a substance extracted from licorice...