Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's long past," he said. "For Jackson, the source material was limited and all the witnesses were dead. There was no one to pop up and say, 'You were wrong-I was there.'" The Roosevelt books were splendid training for A Thousand Days. A Little Sore. With 1960 approaching, Schlesinger turned once again to the life of action. He has confessed to being "nostalgically for Stevenson, ideologically for Humphrey, and realistically for Kennedy." Fortunately for his future, realism won out. Kennedy, vacationing on the Cape at Hyannis Port, invited him for intimate dinners and sought...
...campaign trail, Kennedy used Arthur sparingly. After Kennedy won the Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, he scrapped an acceptance speech that Schlesinger had drafted "because it was written for Stevenson. My cadence and timing are entirely different. It was a beautiful speech, though. I guess Arthur was a little sore." But once in Washington, the new President summoned Schlesinger to the White House, and the professor moved into an 18th century red brick house in stylish Georgetown...
This year, probably no one beats the Crimson at pole-vaulting. Steve Schonover bursts into varsity track as an advanced-placement sophomore; he soared to 14' 4 1/2" at Niskayuna High in New York and he should vault 14 feet Saturday despite a sore leg. That is still a generous 1-4 inch above the previous mark set by Truman Ford...
...Another sore point is García-Godoy's failure to round up rebel-held arms in downtown Santo Domingo. By night, political terrorists patrol the streets in speeding cars, blasting away with machine guns and hurling hand grenades at their enemies. Last week García-Godoy was even considering bribery to encourage Dominicans to turn in their weapons-up to $80 for a pistol, $55 for a rifle, $250 for a machine...
...second papal change touched on the sore issue of Biblical error. Catholic Biblical scholars admit that on a factual level the Bible does make mistakes-Daniel, for example, calls King Darius a Mede when he was certainly a Persian. The drafters of the decree on revelation wrote that the Bible presents "salvific truth"-that is, the right knowledge of those things concerned with man's salvation. Pope Paul insisted that salvific be dropped...