Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., with an almost perceptible shudder, talks of "the inevitability of Bobby." Playwright-Novelist Gore Vidal, a longtime foe, protests that "we now have a three-party system in America-the Democrats, the Republicans and the Kennedys." Cries Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, who had an acrimonious confrontation with Bobby during last month's hearings on the plight of U.S. cities: "Bobby Kennedy is conducting a lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father...
Some things, of course, have hardly changed. The mean streak is still there; and occasionally, when a Sam Yorty sits down in the witness chair opposite him, it shows through. "He doesn't like to lose," says Teddy, and it is hard to imagine his ever learning to do so with grace in anything from touch football to politics. He evokes intense responses, from fiercely loyal affection to unalterable hostility-and occasionally the baffled feeling that he has yet to find his own identity...
...candidates are edging closer in other respects as well. Back in June, the California Poll gave Reagan 52% of the state's vote v. 37% for Brown and 11% undecided. Since then, many Democratic voters who supported Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in the Democratic primary have been trickling back to the Brown fold. As a result, the latest California Poll shows that Reagan now holds only a hairsbreadth lead, 46% to 43%. A more direct popularity test came last week when both candidates and the usual panoply of show-biz celebrities rode in a parade commemorating Los Angeles...
None of the seven acacia trees in the front yard of Sam Morse's home in La Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others-or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. But to thousands of Mexican-Americans in the area, one of Morse's 30-ft. acacias has suddenly become "God's tree," an object of awe and veneration. That particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local...
...very well indeed. Despite the sordid tenements, putrid poolrooms, stenchy saloons, dirty streets and flying garbage, they provided their children with emotional security and imbued them with dignity. This sometimes rollicking, often tender account of how they did so much with so little is told by their youngest son, Sam, now 54. who became a Brooklyn high school teacher and then a folksy matzo-barrel humorist on TV and the lecture circuit...