Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ike's convention speech was drawing respectful applause, but he had not really set his inflammable audience afire. Suddenly he found the match. "Let us particularly scorn the divisive efforts of those outside our family," he said, "including sensation-seeking columnists and commentators . . ." The delegates did not let him...
Never Close. The news caused an in stant, shocked sensation in Latin America, where by tradition, if not always in fact, middle-class families are large, close-knit-and tightlipped. But the Castros of Biran (pop. 2,000), in eastern Oriente province were never very close. Cubans who remember them...
Dr. Harry D. L. Kaye of Coral Gables was treating a 54-year-old engineer for a messy infection of the left ear that had not yielded to penicillin. Then the engineer remembered that on a hunting trip in Venezuela he had been bitten on the ear, and later had...
When her dad said he would vote for L.B.J., the G.O.P. had the distinct sensation of being kicked by a mustang. Now a filly is bolting the stable too. Charlotte Ford, 23, Henry's eldest daughter, has joined a group called Young Citizens for Johnson.
Brazilians saw him everywhere-and nowhere. In one 24-hour span, the cops in three Brazilian cities thought they had him cornered; in Pôrto Alegre, he was reported 21 times, even after gauchos began shearing off their Brizola-like mustaches. Four times, sensation-mongering newspapers declared Brizola dead...