Word: wel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem was very nearly solved, as six Washington real estate men, prodded by President Kennedy, offered to drop color bars in their luxury-apartment buildings. The six: Builders Morris Cafritz, Frank Luchs, Norman and Leo Bernstein, Mark Winkler and Louis Richman. African diplomats, said Norman Bernstein, would be wel come at three of his "restricted"' apartment complexes: Kew Gardens in Georgetown, Cathedral Mansions on Connecticut Avenue, and Connecticut Gardens in northwest Washington...
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Holding the Line. Nixon had been working behind the scenes to make sure that Kennedy did not get the needed Republican votes. On Senate social wel fare measures, liberal Republicans such as New York's Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, some times vote with liberal Democrats against the Senate's conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. To possible line-crossers, Nixon forces argued: G.O.P. votes for the Kennedy proposal would help Kennedy in November and therefore hurt Nixon...
...strolling along the Corso. In entering Drohitz. exults Gravedigger Adam Ember of the army's medical corps "we belonged to life once more." Dead Wrong. Ember, the passive tattered Everyman of both novels is dead wrong At first. Drohitz girls and Drohitz gilt shops make the troops royally wel come. City fathers entertain the officers at an orgiastic banquet that precedes a midnight trip to the Mashinka Drohitz' spectacular red-light district. There less than 24 hours after the army's arrival Embers commander and a prostitute called Black Narcissus die in agony from some unnamed disease...
...apprenticeship as sneak thief, pimp, and hanger-on of Catfish Gedunsky, a small-time politician, until the army drafted him before the start of the Korean war. Months later, he was out again on a dishonorable discharge, but dressed up as a paratrooper and Claiming a hero s wel come back on Mechanic Avenue...