Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of Nader's task force supported himself in part by serving as part-time superintendent of an apartment building. Two others wangled rent-free rooms as caretakers. William Howard Taft IV, a great-grandson of President Taft, who is in his second year at Harvard Law School, lived on his savings. Edward Cox, 21, took a few days off to visit a girl friend while her father was winning the Republican nomination for President. Cox had met Tricia Nixon, now 22, in Manhattan at a Chapin School dance, and they have been going out together "more or less...
...William Bradford Huie boasts of "one distinction. I guess I've paid more money to more murderers than any reporter in history." Freelancer Huie has other distinctions as well, but it is true that he uses money, lavishly if necessary, to get his story. Nobody was ever convicted for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, but Huie paid enough to get a complete account of the crime for Look magazine. Three years ago, Huie disclosed the facts in the case of the murder of the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss...
...spinster has always been a haunting and rather mysterious figure: no man quite knows her. Victorian writers characterized her as a religious zealot or an anxious nanny. In the post-analytical theater, Playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams toss her about like a sex bomb on a short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...
...search. Executives who find themselves passed over always have the option of switching employers themselves. For companies hurt by such job jumping, there is always consolation in the fact that the practice can cut both ways. A case in point is Chicago-based Bell & Howell, whose executive vice president, William Roberts, left in 1961, to become president of Ampex Corp., taking several colleagues along with him. Casting about for vice presidents earlier this year, Bell & Howell went to Ampex and hired back two of its former men. Ampex's Roberts, now 53, is hardly in a position to complain...
...LANGUAGE OF POLITICS (An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans and Political Usage) by William Safire. 528 pages. Random House...