Word: william
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives a masterly performance in Peter Luke's play as the English eccentric, Frederick William Rolfe, a rejected candidate for the priesthood who eventually imagines himself elected Pope...
...possibly be the most serious in the Supreme Court's 180 years. No Supreme Court Justice has ever resigned under pressure. Only one-Samuel Chase in 1804-has been impeached, but on such blatantly political grounds that he was acquitted. Three years ago, it was disclosed that Justice William O. Douglas was receiving $12,000 a year in fees from a foundation linked to Las Vegas gambling interests. However, no one connected with the foundation was in immediate need of highly placed connections, as Wolfson and his associates were...
...walked along Main Street in a daze, saying: "Animals! Animals!" He tried to bring the fire under control, but when the volunteer fire department arrived a score of youths jumped on the truck and began taking it apart. Finally, the thoroughly frustrated Fuchs called for help. Governor William Guy responded with 500 National Guardsmen, who came dressed for combat and armed with rifles and 5-ft. clubs. Within an hour the students were gone, leaving behind a shattered community. Not one of the town's stores could open for business that day. Jan Beick, whose modest café rang...
...most bizarre writer-v.-writer confrontation since Westbrook Pegler took on Drew Pearson. Charging that Gore Vidal waged "a campaign of persistent, false and defamatory allegations, both oral and written, that he is a Nazi," Conservative Columnist William Buckley filed suit asking for $500,000 in damages. The charges stemmed from a fang-and-claw exchange that took place on ABC-TV during the Democratic Convention last August. At one point in the debate, Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi," to which Buckley replied: "Listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock...
...Profits are the shock absorbers of the economy," says Assistant Commerce Secretary William Chartener. "When business slows down, the first place it is felt is typically in profits." This year, companies will be paying higher social security taxes on top of the now extended 10% surcharge. If Congress repeals the 7% investment tax credit, that will further crimp earnings...