Word: wielder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Westbrook Pegler, 74, newspaper columnist and for nearly 30 years wielder of U.S. journalism's most malevolent pen (see THE PRESS...
...wielder of behind-the-scenes influence, South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond is sometimes pictured as a rival of Rasputin. In return for the South's electoral support, the stories went, it was Thurmond who had final clearance on Richard Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew, during the Republican Convention in Miami. Nixon recently alluded to his Dixie friend with some of his newly discovered humor. It was delivered at a dinner of the Alfalfa Club, a group of top businessmen, professionals and Government officials that starts off the term of a new President by putting...
That is about all John Updike has to say in his fourth novel, which will disappoint those admirers who have been waiting hopefully for a major talent to produce a major work. Instead of expanding, the Updike compass appears to be narrowing, as if its wielder were desirous of proving that he can, if need be, engrave his graceful arabesques on the head of a pin. Of the Farm barely qualifies as a novel; it is too brief, inactive and unambitious. But as a delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable...
Paul Profeta defeated two Yale opponents in sabre, and Mike Nigro conquered one sabre-wielder to round out the score...
Barebones Request. Johnson was jubilant, congratulated the House for a "wise and prudent action." Said he: "This is no time to be cutting a carefully drawn measure." Even so, it looked at first as if Congress might cut it to ribbons. Veteran Ax Wielder Otto Pass man, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said that the President "would be very lucky to get $2.5 billion." Congress seemed so rebellious that some officials feared the aid package might eventually be trimmed to $2 billion...