Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting late-just four weeks before the election-Bobby parlayed his longstanding assets. He imported some of the nation's most talented political organizers, led by Lawrence O'Brien and Ted Kennedy. He mobilized three generations of kin-Mother Rose, Sisters Eunice, Jean and Pat, Children David, Michael and Courtney. Ethel, who is expecting their eleventh campaigner in January, did her smiling bit. Meticulous planning and arrangements, plus Kennedy's own crowd-catching personality, consistently made for large audiences, while McCarthy and Branigin frequently dissipated their efforts on small groups...
...then there was money. McCarthy staffers occasionally went without their paychecks and sometimes had to exist on $5 a day for expenses. Branigin complained: "You can't beat $2,000,000." Though Kennedy insisted that he had actually spent between $550,000 and $600,000, Rose Kennedy, in an interview with Women's Wear Daily, was cash-candid: "It's our own money, and we're free to spend it any way we please. It's part of this campaign business. If you have money, you spend...
Lately, however, questions have arisen about possible long-range effects of Chemical Mace. A San Francisco ophthalmologist, Lawrence Rose, has squirted it at close range into one eye of each of three rabbits, whose eye structure is biologically similar to that of humans; he has caused permanent corneal scarring in one.* In Ann Arbor, Mich., the face of a Negro who was sprayed last March is still partially depigmented; Ann Arbor police have discontinued using the weapon. A Columbus reporter, Robert Mac Vicar, who was Maced in the face during Ohio State University demonstrations last fall, is suing...
...July call is the lowest since the 11,400 of April, 1967. Draft calls rose sharply at the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. That cycle has now been completed...
While necessarily incomplete, the surveys showed that almost every other area of the economy enjoyed the surge. Earning $1.3 billion, 26 oil companies outpaced their 1967 first quarter by 16%. Rebounding from the slump that hit most of U.S. business last year, steelmakers' profits rose by 40%, while big gains were also recorded in aircraft (59%), building equipment (34%), textiles (30%), office equipment (29%), chain-store retailing (24.5%), rubber (21%) and Pharmaceuticals (17%), not to mention cement, up a solid 236%. Other increases came in tobacco, broadcasting, food products and electronics. Among the leaders...