Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Those Republicans who are not willing to make a fight for the big cities," says Javits, "are in effect saying that they mean never to win a presidential election in modern times." As proof, he notes that Dwight Eisenhower carried 25 of the nation's 36 biggest cities in his...
Mayor Lindsay had gone into the meeting with a minimal package of requests amounting to $520 million. He emerged with $283 million in new taxing authority and the assurance that the city would get sufficient additional income from existing taxes and state aid programs to raise the total to $385.5...
The classic heroes, in the words of U.C.L.A.'s late Historian Dixon Wecter, "were taller by a head than any of their tribesmen, could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and...
Athletes have traditionally been heroes in the human imagination. Men still dream of themselves as Samson, tearing down the temple around the mocking ears, or as Lancelot, cutting down all challengers and incidentally winning the lady. But the commercialization of athletics and pervasive publicity have altered the image of the...
Government leaders also rated high in the judgment of colleges, both great and small. Winning five honorary degrees each were Robert Weaver (Columbia, Illinois, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, Delaware State); Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (Ohio Wesleyan, Fairleigh Dickinson, Oakland, Morehouse, Loras); and Oregon's Governor Mark...