Word: suspectibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indivduals as for epochs the process of aging is normally a quiet and gradual affair, but the realization of youth having passed comes often as not with a suddenness, even a shock. Most of us, I suspect, mark that moment well and often thereafter in idle passages find ourselves touching the wound it left. My moment, and that of many like me, came with the death of Kennedy, and along with the others, I knew it. About the third day of that long, terrible time Mary McGrory said to me, "We'll never laugh again." And I answered, "Heavens, Mary...
Charles de Gaulle often acts more princely than presidential, and even his best friends suspect that he sometimes dreams of restoring monarchy to France with himself on the throne. Actually, De Gaulle wears the purple quite legitimately. He is Co-Prince of Andorra, a tiny (190 sq. mi.) principality high in the Pyrenees that has been the joint suzerainty of Spanish bishops and French rulers since the Middle Ages. None of the 46 French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could...
Little did anyone suspect that Oil Magnate J. Paul Getty, 74, is really the George Plimpton of Billionaire's Row. But at an Anglo-American Sporting Club dinner in London in honor of Jack Dempsey, 72, Getty recalled that 44 years ago he and the then-champion had climbed into the ring together. "Jack is one of the real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary...
...know how his career went wrong and I don't think he does either. He truly does suspect the CIA of insinuating against him. He claims, and I more than half believe him, that he refused to spy for them when he performed in East Germany; when they sent some woman agent to coax him he got furious and said wouldn't you like to go to hell and tell some of his friends. He thinks that they hate him because the woman was arrested a few months later and they think he was responsible, even though the woman always...
Every student in violation of federal statutes should expect a visit from federal agents. But each suspect should know that he may ask the FBI to leave his room if the agents do not have a search warrant; that he is not required to sign a waiver permitting the government to use against him in court anything he says...