Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Which of the five habitually rolls small balls of lint from the seams of his pockets, then flicks them away? He also likes to scrutinize the floor during interminable introduction speeches. He recently spied a pin on the platform and, ignoring the speaker, rose, picked it up and neatly placed it on a little table next to the speaker's stand...
...widely known journalist, Wiggins has no legal or diplomatic experience. When he was tapped, he was preparing to retire from the Post (see PRESS) to his 80-acre Maine farm and a weekly newspaper. Wiggins came to Washington in 1933 as correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, rose to editor before becoming assistant to the publisher of the New York Times. In 1947 he joined the Post, was named editor in 1961. A staunch defender of freedom of information, Wiggins noted just a few months ago that the ideal newsman should be "a witness, not the principal...
Much police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other...
...Cathedral in Washington. Instead of delivering a sermon, he entered the pulpit to read a pastoral letter that, it had been announced in advance, would exhort the faithful to obey the encyclical. As O'Boyle began to speak, about 400 worshipers, roughly one-third of the congregation, rose and walked out of the church. Despite this stunning rebuke, prearranged by two local organizations, the cardinal calmly delivered his message, which warned against "false prophets" who contend that birth control is a matter for individual conscience.* "Even a few of my brother bishops in other lands," O'Boyle lamented...
...tension rose in California last night over Eldridge Cleaver's appointment as lecturer on racism, West Coast sources reported that President Pusey had advised the U.C. Regents in their decision to abort the Cleaver course...