Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress in whose wake many lives bob helplessly...
...maneuvering really began in earnest last February, when General William C. Westmoreland, then the U.S. commander in Viet Nam and now Army Chief of Staff, appealed to the President for 206,000 more U.S. troops in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive. Johnson rejected the request, though he did agree to a modest increase, and the ceiling on U.S. manpower now stands at 549,000. Then came Johnson's March 31 renunciation of a second term and his declaration of a partial bombing pause over the North. Six weeks after that, in mid-May, the Paris peace...
...discreetly picks up the restaurant tab. When she throws a temper tantrum, her husband speaks of "flying saucers" at home. In the Hoa Hao sect, a wronged or thwarted wife has been known to tie her husband's hair to a bedpost while he is sleeping, then wake him up and beat him until her wishes are granted...
Despite major Democratic advances, particularly in the wake of the bombing halt, California and Ohio are regarded as safe for Nixon. Others in this safe category are Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma; also, among smaller states, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are less securely Nixon country...
Traveling in the wake of Wallace's chaotic crusade, however, it's hard to become terribly worried about things like this. The hopelessness of reporting Wallace's one disorganized, idiotic speech in any way that would stop his complaining about the fancy eastern press is the first thing that makes traveling with him so odd. Wallace's famous hatred of the press, combined with the reporters' bemused contempt for Wallace, has created a strangely jocular atmosphere between the press and the candidate...