Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to know what King-and another assassinated black leader, Malcolm X, the apostle of the unchurched-might have done to change the struggle, had they lived. According to King's assistant, Wyatt Tee Walker: "Their deaths set back our struggle by 25 years.' Even toward the end of King's life, however, he may have suspected that he was losing his constituency among blacks because of the change in Negro psychology. The thrust of the nonviolent crusade had been integration of schools and public facilities, voting rights and new civil rights laws. Yet the brutal circumstances...
CHINA TODAY AND TOMORROW (NBC, 2:30-4:30 p.m.). Edwin Newman is the anchorman for this news special which features television films from Communist China and discussion of China by a panel of experts including Edwin O. Reischauer, A. Doak Barnett, Allen S. Whiting. Lucian Pye, Richard L. Walker and Roderick MacFarquhar...
According to the Review, when the Walker Commission sought reporters' accounts of events, Larry Mulay, general manager of the City News Bureau, censored his own reporters' memos to the commission, including one man's claim that a policeman "calmly kicked [a] photographer in the groin and walked on." Explained Mulay: "We have to work with the police, and we depend on them for information all year long." The Review chided the Tribune for assailing all the "anonymous statements" in the Walker Report, then quoting "unimpeachable" (but anonymous) sources and "men of unquestioned integrity" as the basis...
First, Sirhan's lawyers had to overcome his determination to seek death in California's gas chamber, even though his suicidal outbursts were silenced in court by Judge Herbert V. Walker (TIME, March 7). It was not, it transpired, that Sirhan objected to the prosecution's having read from his notebook diaries the passages recounting his resolve to kill Kennedy, an essential element of the prosecution's contention that he acted with premeditated malice. Sirhan would actually have preferred to die rather than subject his family to what he deemed the public shame of an airing...
...earlier America seemed to have many eccentrics, such as Johnny Appleseed and Thoreau, both of whom heard "a different drummer." The Boston Brahmins produced Eleonora Sears, a ferocious walker who once hiked 110 miles nonstop. Mrs. Isabella Gardner shocked Beacon Hill by practicing Buddhism, drinking beer and strolling down Tremont Street with a lion. Until he died in 1957, "Silver Dollar" Jim West was Houston's favorite millionaire. He owned 30 cars, lived in a $500,000 castle, often wore a pistol and a diamond-studded Texas Ranger's badge. He lugged his own butter to expensive restaurants...