Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that people are choosing to lead more and more insular existences rather than wanting to help people help themselves? When I read your article on Newark [March 21], I realized only too well what Mayor Addonizio meant by his statement, "America is not prepared to save its cities." He, as well as I, and many others, is aware that some of the nation's wealthiest white bedroom communities come very close to touching Newark-physically. I grew up in Short Hills, N.J., one of the most elite. And I found that after the rioting those who "have" reacted...
...will those who passed by the bier or watched the funeral procession on television. The arrangements had been meticulously laid down in 1966, then approved by Ike. The 54-page scenario for the funeral read like a battle plan, covering every detail from the pace of the funeral march (31 miles an hour) to the route and the points at which military bands were to play. After remaining at Washington's National Cathedral for 28 hours, the body was placed on a caisson Sunday afternoon and moved to the Capitol, where it lay in state on the same black-draped...
...entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion. "Perhaps so, and perhaps, therefore, what I have said is quite unnecessary. But ten years of experience here have taught me that the most carefully written opinions are not always carefully read-even by those most directly concerned." Stewart's gibe may have seemed excessive to those who have read some of the court's "carefully written opinions," particularly when it is remembered that the Solicitor General, a former dean of the Harvard Law School, has had ample experience...
When the Chicago police department began to discipline some of its patrol men for their part in the convention dis orders, Mabley took up the cops' cause in his well read daily column. A 30-year veteran of writing sports, television and freewheeling general commentary for Chicago newspapers, Mabley wrote...
...mother took a dim view of my ambitions," she recalls. "She threw at me a copy of The Carpetbaggers. 'Read this,' she said, 'and tell me if that really is the kind of career you want.' " Raquel studied the book like a road map. "It was a tremendous help to me," she says, "because from it I learned what not to do. I made up my mind that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins. It's a place filled with hardheaded business people...