Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wish for the Whatnots. The President was at his crowd-pleasing best when he spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington's Constitution Hall. He loosed a flock of his favorite yarns (see box), and got a warm reception even while needling the businessmen: "All of you feel sorry for yourselves now-all of you have a martyr complex, and all of you think you are mistreated." Ticking off his Administration's economic accomplishments, he cried: "I came here this morning because I want you to be a part of this Administration, of this Government, whether...
...would have made William Jennings Bryan look like a cigar-store Indian. His arms worked like pistons; he pointed up, down and into the audience; he rocked his body back and forth-once leaning so far forward between the microphones that the public-address system lost his voice. He spoke of patriotism, looked around for Old Glory, couldn't locate it, and went on in pantomime, holding high and waving an imaginary flag standard. Repeatedly, he used a sort of breast-stroke-like gesture that has come to be known to newsmen as "parting the waters...
...Lewis Carroll: "It just comes out. I sit down and write and this is what happens." The T.L.S. glurbles: "He must write a great deal more." If Lennon does have the stomarce for more writing, perhaps he will return to the fascillating histamine of Roger and Anne, those spoke-crossed lovers, and how they got that way. They should be good for a whole book if he keeps it syble...
...Donovan regularly from East Germany and hinted at the possibility of a deal. But U.S. security officials opposed an exchange; they were still hopeful that Abel might one day turn canary and spill what he knew about Soviet intelligence. Abel, however, was a tough customer. A scholarly intellectual who spoke six languages fluently, dabbled in theoretical mathematics, and was an accomplished amateur painter and musician, he never admitted either his real name (Abel was a pseudonym) or even that he was a Red agent...
...York lawyer Mark Lane charged yesterday that the Presidential Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy will judge Lee H. Oswald guilty on the basis of insufficient evidence." Lane spoke to a full house in Emerson D; his speech was sponsored by the Young Socialist Club...