Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's case just may be different. "Of course they stole that election," said one former aide. "That's the way they did it down there. In 1941, when Lyndon ran the first time for the Senate, he went to bed one night thinking he was 5,000 votes ahead of W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, and he woke up next morning 10,000 votes behind. He learned a thing or two between...
Disco and coffee-shop owners are variously hostile and hospitable to the cops. At Arthur J's, four men began openly selling drugs at a table; another time, a 15-year-old girl ran out of the ladies' room screaming, "Oh my God, I broke the needle off in my arm!" Shirley Norris, the manager, hired her own night guard-and then gathered signatures for a petition demanding extra police protection. Now she's seeing "familiar faces back again" -her old "straight" clientele...
...prime for revisionism and ridicule. But to see that generation contemptuously as merely the screaming, Spock-coddled army of Consciousness III ignores the great changes it helped to cause in American life. Says Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, who last year ran against John Tunney in the California senatorial race: "We ended a war, toppled two Presidents, desegregated the South, broke other barriers of discrimination." That is hyperbolic; such changes did not occur until a broader nonradical public became disillusioned. But the energies of the young during the "60s made Americans begin...
...Chicago Sun-Times's Bagtime was the story of Mike Holiday, a grocery boy who got into improbable situations with local politicians and socialites. The serial ran for 5½ months before the hero was lost at sea while surfing off San Clemente. Recently revived as Bagtime II, the series has Mike meeting up with Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic and his bride in California and then heading back home to his fans...
...this genteel anonymity is about to end. Controversy, if not quality, bids fair to make The Public Burning a major publishing event. An excerpt from the novel that ran last fall in American Review alerted readers to its incendiary subject: the June 19, 1953, execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In Coover's fiction, the convicted atomic bomb spies are transferred from the death house at Sing Sing to a public stage in Times Square for their execution. Word began circulating that several publishers had considered the manuscript and decided not to risk legal repercussions. The question naturally arose...