Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doubles, Harvard's strongest advantage, could prove to be the saving grace. If the singles split 3-3, Harvard is in high cotton; if the Crimson's down 4-2, there is still hope. Princeton has no wizard like Fitzgibbon this year to ensure at least one doubles victory...
...STONE (Disneyland) is as bright as Excalibur. It is the ageless legend of the exploit by which young Arthur, the humble knight's equerry, became King of England. Arthur is simple of soul and fairly regal in silence, but Merlin is a beguilingly garrulous, absent-minded wizard...
DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The Wizard of Oz's Witch of the West, Actress Margaret Hamilton, discusses witchcraft...
...Injured Image. The Klan's operations provided tidy profits for Imperial Wizard Simmons and the publicity team of Young and Tyler, but by 1924 the Klan's great days were ending. Several states invoked anti-Klan laws; others forbade the Klan to wear masks. Corruption among the bosses and internecine battles for leadership further weakened the organization. In 1926 David Stephenson, the posturing Grand Dragon of the Indiana Realm, was convicted of murder after the lower-berth Pullman-car rape of a young woman. The Indiana affair hurt the Klan image considerably more than the castrations and lynchings...
...Mentality. No longer a monolithic organization, the Klan today consists of several ragtag independent groups, the best known of which is the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated...