Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other odd-and rather chilling-possibilities. A sample fantasy: The Wallace-LeMay ticket runs second in electoral votes behind Nixon-Agnew. On New Year's Day, the Communist Chinese strike the U.S. in Asia, perhaps in Viet Nam; a tide of reaction floods the nation. The House remains deadlocked on a presidential choice after days of belligerent debate. Wallace supporters scent victory and refuse to bolt to Nixon. The Senate, meantime, bows to the nation's angry mood and by two votes names Curtis LeMay to be Vice President. With the House still deadlocked...
...past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel that she had written called The Strike. After a year of contention, the case reached its climax last week-with a notable victory for the fiery author...
...duchess's difficulties began in January 1967, when a Paris publishing house brought out a Spanish-language edition of The Strike. Almost immediately, copies of the book were bootlegged into Spain, and it quickly became a cause célèbre on many social levels. The duchess's restaurant meals were constantly interrupted by waiters who had read the book and simply wanted to shake her hand. The book was avidly read in her home region of Andalusia, where the novel is set. There she is respected not only as a horse woman but for her deep...
Lamentable Acts. In recent years there has been a mild relaxation of censorship in Spain, but The Strike was such strong fare that the regime took action. After several tribunals dithered over the case, the duchess was finally brought to trial by the Press Court set up in 1967 to handle "press offenses" that fall under the penal code. The trial of the diminutive, 32-year-old duchess took place in the tribunal's highceilinged, chandeliered chamber...
...hear the prosecution charge that her novel "insidiously presents in factual style a denunciation of a community." The prosecution's unhappiness turned largely on her portrayal of local officials, including a judge, who join in what the court called "a lamentable series of acts" to quash a peasant strike organized by field hands who want better...