Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belonged to the Mayor, and the Mayor replied that it was possible, but that it didn't matter. The Arab, becoming increasingly more horrified, finally asked the Mayor what he was going to do with the ticket. 'Pay it, of course' the Mayor replied. 'It was the worst thing the Arab could imagine," Eisenstadt concludes...
...fact, no one physically prevented anyone from doing anything at Paine Hall. Because the meeting was cancelled so early, the students can be charged with preventing the Faculty from meeting only in a very shaky symbolic sense. At worst they disobeyed an order from Dean Glimp. That is an offense, but a milder and different one than physically blocking the movement of a Dow recruiter. It therefore merits milder, not more severe, punishment than the probation slapped on those who sat in at Malinckrodt--either admonition or no punishment at all. Expelling the demonstrators from the Harvard community (subjecting them...
...Nixon's worst selection was Maurice Stans for Secretary of Commerce. An Old-Guard Republican whose only virtue was that he raised a lot of money for Nixon's campaign, Stans is supposed to lead the effort to involve business in the ghetto. Almost as bad is Walter Hickel, Secretary of Interior, whose business-development mind will find it hard to understand why conservationists are interested in natural resources. Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South...
...matter of time until someone from the Left would step forward to challenge him. That Howard Zinn was the one who did is fortunate, for Zinn's new book, Disboedience and Democracy, Nine Fallacies on Law and Order, reveals at once some of the best and some of the worst of contemporary radical thinking...
...Boston Strangler -- Believe your worst suspicions. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...