Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breeding down to a population of field hands," says one of the many white merchants who are beginning to wonder whether the boycott might backfire. As the more affluent and educated Negroes pull out, the county's Negro population is becoming poorer and more restless. The whites are left with a heavier tax burden to carry-and a greater fear as well. Says one Negro leader: "There wouldn't have been a bloc vote, except the white people chose to make an issue of it. Now there will be a bloc...
...diplomats, who had once dismissed him as a demagogue or a nut, began to wonder if Lumumba had not known all along what he was doing. "He was sitting down there feeling pretty vulnerable," mused one. "So he mentions the Russians, and nothing could bring the house down faster. Everyone panics, and the U.N. really begins to move." The consensus: "Erratic, but a tough, clever...
...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...
...actions seemed plain disloyalty to what Guggenheim regarded as a great building. But there was another and unexpected problem-the building's extraordinary popularity. In nine months, more than 750,000 people have swarmed through it, and as the queues outside got longer and longer. Guggenheim began to wonder whether the museum should not offer more to the public in the form of more popular lectures, art courses, films and concerts. To such a purist as Sweeney, this was the last straw: Guggenheim's program, he felt, would only result in the museum's squandering its resources...
...last night's session was devoted to giving the party's old-timers a chance to have their say. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, blasting the acceptance speech of Senator John F. Kennedy '40 at the Democratic Convention two weeks ago, said that it made him "wonder whether he's grown up enough to be President." He criticized Kennedy for his "smart-aleck attack on the President and Vice-President of the United States," and charged that Kennedy had "associated himself" with Lincoln, Alexander the Great, etc., in his reply to former President Truman...