Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-bearded, Oriental-eyed effigy ablaze before the U.S. embassy in Manila looked more like Charlie Chan than Uncle Sam. But no one could mistake the mood of the 5,000 torch-bearing students, trade unionists and agitators swarming before the embassy gates. Their placards read "Stop fooling us, Yankee dogs!" and "Go home, white monkeys!" The mob shouted not only for immediate removal of all U.S. military bases but also for things clearly beyond U.S. control, including an increase in the minimum wage (currently $1 a day for industrial workers). Then a soft rain began to fall...
Count to a Million. As graves are weeded and headstones set straight under the fond patriarchal eye of Grandfather Sam Ordway, the dead begin to seem nearly as quick as the living, and reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...
...else worth naming -except a few. Cousin Oriole, in her 70s, was not up to the trip. Dwight Eisenhower was taking the California sun, Harry Truman was feeling under the weather, and Jacqueline Kennedy wanted to avoid the inescapably painful comparisons. Uncle Huffman Baines was present, and so was Sam Houston Johnson, Lyndon's brother, and Mrs. Josephs Saunders, Lyndon's aunt, and Rodney White, Lyndon's nephew, and Ave Johnson Cox, Lyndon's cousin, and Lyndon's two sisters, Mrs. Birge Alexander and Mrs. O. P. Bobbitt and their children, Becky Alexander and Philip...
...nobody to match the point-scoring potential of the Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West and Elgin Baylor, the playmaking abilities of Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. Out of the Celtics' starting five, only one player - Guard Tom Sanders - is under 30. Except for Forward Sam Jones, who has been averaging 25 points a game, the Celtics do not have a man among the top 15 scorers in the National Basketball Association. Center Russell, four times the league's Most Valuable Player, has been complaining of a mysterious stomach ailment. Forward Tommy Heinsohn, the team...
Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on grounds of extreme cruelty (he was jealous of her rising career, she said): after six years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...