Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi, Gov. John Bell Williams has, with a wistful look in Ronald Reagan's direction, endorsed Wallace for President. Williams, who lost 28 years of Congressional seniority because he supported Barry Gold-water in '64, has passed along the word that he doesn't care a bit whether his Wallace endorsement means the state's delegation won't get seated in Chicago. But Senator James Eastland, who would much prefer to keep on reasonably cordial terms with his Washington colleagues, has been quietly arranging to polish the state party's image by including a handful of Negroes among the delegates...
...Trying to identify him with one word or two is impossible," says one reporter who has followed Allard K. Lowenstein for a long time...
...hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues of Buddha and votive candles, holding hands and ecstatically chanting "Om" (a Hindu word signifying "the ultimate religion...
Draconian Directives. As Public Affairs Chief of the U.S. European Command, Ellis conceives AFN broadcasts to be an obedient arm of U.S. policy. From his office in Stuttgart has come a steady stream of Draconian directives, all in the interests of what he calls "preventive maintenance." In other words, Ellis decides in advance how AFN will play a sensitive story. In reporting the recent 35,000-man U.S. troop cut in West Germany, for example, he instructed AFN not to use "cut" or "withdrawal"; "redeployment" was the proper word. No longer could AFN refer to the National Liberation Front...
...nice, so good and so just that he is virtually dragooned into acting as Big Daddy to all the others. Does the divorcee fear an old lover's return? Speak to her, John. Does Willy, the Dachau victim, seem about to go under in private gloom? Have a word with Willy, John. But the role of father-confessor plus Mr. Fixit is really a trial to him. He is having troubles of his own as he is trying to dodge an old mistress to devote his repressed, puritan self to the torturing game he plays with Kate. Author Murdoch...