Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
...street, near Filene's, neon Christmas lights blink on and off, radios, record players, jukeboxes sound seasonal music--from "Santa Baby" and "The Yuletide Olde Lang Syne," to "White Christmas" to "Silent Night." Nearby, on the Common, some elm trees pretend they are pine. They have been used to offset a large, carousel-like decoration which projects a variety of colors each night...
...despite his desire to appoint Fulbright, no one knew better than Kennedy that Fulbright has one great debit. One of the heaviest responsibilities of the new Secretary of State will be in dealing with restive African nations-and Fulbright, though no racist, is a political segregationist who remained conspicuously silent during the Little Rock school crisis in his home state...
...quiet and dutiful as his father was bombastic and domineering, rarely had anything to say. In the executive council of the A.F.L.C.I.O., where Maurice still ranks as a national vice president, he often sat through four-hour sessions without opening his mouth, soon became known as "Maurice the Silent." In the subsidized biography of Big Bill Hutcheson (for which the union, if not its rank-and-file members, cheerfully paid $310,000), Author Maxwell Raddock described Maurice: "He seems to possess all the qualities of a leader; he is tall, he has a good heart, and he is moderate...
Three years ago, silent Maurice and two other union officials were indicted on charges of bribing a state official and making a fast $81,000 in land sales for a scandal-scarred Indiana highways project. (They later turned the money over to the state.) When a Senate committee pressed him for the details, Maurice was as untalkative as ever: he ducked 18 questions without bothering to invoke the Fifth Amendment. Last May, Hutcheson was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of Congress. Last week, his troubles multiplying like wood shavings, Maurice and Carpenters' Vice...