Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start with," sniffed a Midwestern Republican, "he's from New York. Add to that his religion and his voting record, and it just wouldn't go down too well with a lot of people out here." Maybe Javits would offer the nation a new face for 1968, snorted arch-Conservative William F. Buckley Jr.?but "so would Mario Savio." Exclaims a Senate colleague: "Preposterous...
...hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed, and the assassin's bullet cut it short before it was completed. But he, too, was a hero to himself. Visibly and with eloquence, he embodied the hope of a new start. His looks and his style, the glamour of his wife and his clan permanently enshrined him as the most romantic of U.S. Presidents...
...From the start, ASPAC's founders aimed at standing aside from the direct anti-Communist struggle in Asia, even though all its members are nonCommunist. One reason was to ensure participation by the Japanese, who are both dubious about the Viet Nam war and anxious to increase their trade with Red China. Thus at Seoul the final communique last week expressed "sympathy" with South Viet Nam's plight, affirmed the nation's right to freedom "from external aggression and subversion," and "noted with satisfaction" the aid being given by other nations to help Saigon...
...White House issued a cryptic statement indicating that Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, "has begun her summertime travel plans." Everybody thought that she would head straight for Spain to start off a European jaunt. But no, the itinerary veered off to Los Angeles, where Lynda got together with a furry-looking character named George Hamilton, 26, her beau, now bearded for a movie part. While they fox-trotted at a benefit ball, the U.S. Embassy staff in Madrid was scouting around to find a stand-in for George, to escort the young lady while she's there...
...once, with the aid of his powerful brain, man discovered weapons; and with the aid of weapons a creature created for flight was abruptly transformed into a creature equipped to attack. Unprohibited by instinct, man more and more effectively attacked members of his own species. At the start of the early Stone Age (500,000 B.C.), war and the hunt became his exclusive occupations, and for about 40,000 years thereafter the warrior virtues of aggression and cunning were intensively bred into his bones...