Word: yorkerism
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--A New Yorker new to Washington notices one thing almost immediately: the extraordinary deference local pedestrians pay to passing motorists. They actually stand patiently--on the curb--while a red light flashes its warning. When it turns green in their direction, and all vehicles grind obediently to a halt, Washingtonians finally plod across the street. No muss, no fuss, no howling drivers, no bruised pedestrians, no frantic policemen...
Judson is especially equipped for an assignment that calls for such concentrated reading. A native New Yorker who graduated from the University of Chicago (A.B.) at 17, Judson at 21 wrote The Techniques of Reading, a widely used textbook for college freshmen who want to learn how to read faster and with more comprehension. A onetime bureaucrat (as a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Berlin), reading teacher, book manuscript editor, advertising copywriter and account executive, Judson is now a mainstay of TIME'S BOOKS staff. As might be expected, he reads faster than most people...
...Clifton White, 45, co-director of field operations, who has shared with Kleindienst the job of beating the bush for delegates. A New Yorker who enlisted in the Air Force as a private and emerged in 1945 as a captain with the Distinguished Flying Cross, White is the tenacious kind of fighter who draws the natural respect of Barry Goldwater. Co-founder of a Manhattan firm called Public Affairs Counselors, Inc., which offers corporation employees advice about how to make their muscle felt in the political world, White was also a founder of the "Draft Goldwater" movement. Since then...
...when they are kept at home. Flatly forbidden is the mere possession of any billy, blackjack, bludgeon, bomb, bombshell, firearm silencer, machine gun, metal knuckles, sandbag, sandclub or "slungshot" (slingshot). The arsenal is so well-stocked that choice is inevitably confusing. Arlene Del Fava, along with many another New Yorker, has decided that from now on there is only one side arm that will keep her safe from both cops and robbers-"a hatpin like grandmother used to carry...
Caldwell and Wife Virginia traveled 25,000 miles in airplanes and rented cars. Mrs. Caldwell's drawings are of high school yearbook caliber, and Caldwell's interviewees are a strangely faceless lot, given to some of the most doubtful quotes outside the fine print of a New Yorker filler. A folksy old lady called Aunt Martha, of Riverhead, Long Island, moans over "this creeping menace of real estate, these acres and acres of housing colonies, shopping centers, garish neon lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop...