Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mendelian Long Shot. In his two years at North Texas State College, Moyers was twice top student, twice class president. In summer vacations he worked for Publisher Millard Cope's Marshall News Messenger as a $25-a-week reporter. With his first byline, he dropped the y from his given name, Billy, has never taken it back. Not all of the paper's hands found the scholarly-looking cub a welcome addition. "Just what we needed," grumbled one. "A part-time college boy with neither whisky nor whiskers-one you can't even cuss in front...
...like to draft students, Carr said yesterday, because its in the national interest that they stay in school -- regardless of their rank in class." He said that most draft boards hope to fill their quotas by other means, such as tightening the physical and mental standards necessary for 1-Y classification and making married men eligible for induction...
While he said he would not take an active part in the New York mayoral campaign, Nixon declared he will vote for Rep. John V. Lindsay (R-N.Y.), rather than Conservative candidate William F. Buckley Jr. He called Lindsay "a fresh new voice in New York...
Having got rid of Wessin y Wessin, the rebels clamored for the ouster of other loyalist officers. Rebel leaders said they would refuse to disarm unless "all the genocide military go-not just Wessin!" The Castroite 14th of June group was openly calling for rebels to keep their weapons, and planeloads of exiles were streaming back to Santo Domingo to participate in a "gigantic" rebel rally this week...
...Puerto Rico, and is expected to campaign for President in the elections next year. To celebrate his arrival, Bosch supporters are already planning another huge rally. All of which could bring on more fireworks, and a deeper mire for the U.S. and OAS. For now, having kicked out Wessin y Wessin, Lyndon Johnson can hardly be less tough toward the Communists still in the Dominican Republic...