Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From Vietnam to Alamein, Our fighting men will have died in vain, If we just go on with our comfort and ease, Doing exactly as we dang well please!" It was stirring. And then, after all the songs, Will Storey, a Negro and one of the troupe's leaders spoke. He was followed by national program director John Sayre accompanied by catcalls and hisses. And finally a song, that old rhetorical question "Which Way America?" There was applause, a standing ovation from the Belmont housewives and the kids and the old men and--yes--some of the Harvards and Cliffies...
...World Council of Churches meeting in 1961. He had been invited by a minister of the Indian government to a dinner for Billy Graham. The food was simple, but the conversation was rich and illuminating. The most unforgettable part of the occasion was Mr. Luce. His face spoke volumes, his manner and bearing made an indelible impression. I was overwhelmed by the fullness of his words and the vast range of his knowledge. He questioned the government official about Gandhi, food and the Sikhs. He made incisive remarks about religion and at the same time displayed a fascinating, mystical reverence...
...Kansas, angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart...
...conferred normal ly with an English professor, then walked into a grocery store, phoned a girl in Mississippi he barely knew and asked her to marry him. "I am intoxicated with love," Hall said. He began crying and laughing; a policeman was called, and drove him home. Later, Hall spoke wildly to his landlady, Mrs. Aline Johnson, and started kicking the door between their apartments. Shortly be fore midnight, Mrs. Johnson called the police, and three officers arrived. "I wish you'd just talk to him," she said...
...that magic in her that all the great ones have: a sense of mystery and radiance in her presence. When she first appears on stage or screen, the spectator feels his skin begin to prickle. In A Man for All Seasons, she appeared in a single scene and spoke a single line, but the aura of her Anne Boleyn was so enthralling that she got more attention from many critics than most of the featured players. Yet Vanessa can play comedy too, and play it dazzlingly. In Morgan!, cast as the better-class bride of a young artist who after...