Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellesley cheerleaders will be on hand to root for the GUTS this time, but about ten Harvard bandsmen will be there to encourage the Crimson. In addition, Sports illustrated has sent a reporter to cover today's contest...
...arrests were made under a sweeping Sabotage Act steamrollered through a pliant Parliament last spring. Vowing to "tear out Communism here root and branch," Vorster, a wartime Nazi sympathizer, moved against a variety of the government's most outspoken critics. Some were ranking Reds before South Africa banned the Communist Party in 1950; some were vociferous left-wingers. Others were simply liberals, but that makes little difference to Vorster, who considers liberalism "the forerunner of Communism...
...esoteric cult and a light industry. Folk-song albums are all over the bestseller charts, and folk-singing groups command as much as $10,000 a night in the big niteries. As a cultural fad folk singing appeals to genuine intellectuals, fake intellectuals, sing-it-yourself types, and rootless root seekers who discern in folk songs the fine basic values of American life. As a pastime, it has staggeringly multiplied sales of banjos and guitars; more than 400,000 guitars were sold in the U.S. last year...
Died. Herman Brown, 70, salty founder and president of Brown & Root, Inc., multimillion -dollar-a-year construction firm, and one of the country's wealthiest men, with a personal fortune estimated at $100 million; of a heart attack; in Houston. Brown & Root's most recent spectacular is a $30 million Mohole contract to drill into the earth's core, but Brown's greatest source of pride was a 1942 U.S. Navy contract to build and operate a shipyard, deliver a specified number of ships by a specified date. Brown & Root had never built a ship...
...root cause of why Arizona's Barry Goldwater was thus recently libeled is an intense left-right political split at Colorado that goes clear back to Ku Klux Klan attacks on the school in the '20s. On one side: the student Colorado Daily, a few Socialists, and most campus Democrats, who include President Newton and five of the six university regents. On the other side: Republicans (including the other regent), the Campus Conservative Club, and its hero, Edward Rozek, 42, a Harvard-trained political scientist, a much decorated Polish officer in World War II and a zealous antiCommunist...