Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary he faced opposition from Ronald Reagan (who was on the ballot) and Rockefeller (who was not). Nixon aimed a P-Shooter at Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey: "three peas in a pod, prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed at both organized crime and what he called "street crime," including legalized wiretapping, legislation to offset Supreme Court decisions that have limited the use of confessions, establishment of a congressional committee...
...carried by student demonstrators, and half a dozen books by or about Che have been published since his death. Among them are two editions of Guevara's recollections of the Cuban insurrection in the Sierra Maestra. Several publishers have tried to pry Che's 30,000-word Bolivian diary out of the hands of the Bolivian army, which seized it, but so far all such negotiations have bogged down...
...apostle on the move," was the way Pope Paul VI referred to himself when he ascended the papal throne five years ago. Since then he has been as good as his word, logging five trips abroad, including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff...
...Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough for the Very Rev. Eric Abbott, present Dean of Westminster, who ordered that an appropriate plaque be placed in Poets' Corner next April, on the 145th anniversary of Byron's death...
...Columbia rested with the faculty-and with the majority of students who, while appalled by the police raid and desirous of change, were beginning to doubt whether they really wanted to take over the university after all. Quite clearly, the university was due for "restructuring"-Columbia's word of the week-although even the faculty committee responsible for recommending changes was not sure how. As Philosophy Lecturer Vincent E. Smith told a class last week: "You can't order a reformation Sunday and expect to have it by breakfast on Monday...