Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sophia when she first went to Rome, signed her to something the Italians call a "personal contract," helped shape her career, became her lover, then her husband (in 1957) by proxy marriage in Mexico, then technically her lover again -this year-when bigamy charges pressed by a religious zealot in Milan forced the couple to disavow their marriage. Carlo had been married before, and his divorce, also Mexican, is recognized in Italy by neither church nor state. "I give up," says Sophia. "I'm married, I'm not married...
...Administration's great good luck is that Congress now has no articulate and commanding protectionist zealot. But there will be abundant opposition from Congressmen whose home folks stand to feel an import pinch, and from armies of lobbyists from such industries as textiles, chemicals, glass and electronics...
...file. Fewer and fewer young workers join unions because they want to or because they think they ought to; they join because, under company-union contracts, they have to in order to get jobs. In last week's U.A.W. walkouts, bored pickets paced perfunctorily, showing little of the zealot enthusiasm of the 1930s. In the past 20 years, the average hourly wage of a steelworker has zoomed from 90½? to $3.82, and the pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado...
...raised in New Jersey and Georgia. In 1939 Birch graduated from Georgia's Baptist-controlled Mercer University as the top man in his class, leaving behind him a record that is still recalled. "He was always an angry young man, always a zealot," says a classmate. "He felt he was called to defend the faith, and he alone knew what it was." Says a psychology professor: "He was like a one-way valve: everything coming out and no room to take anything...
...applied to police for permission to burn Uncle Sam in effigy in front of the U.S. embassy. Police consented, ordered protective barricades placed around the embassy building, and assigned a detail of cops to march along with the students. It was all meant to be orderly, but then a zealot kicked over a barricade. With that, the biggest anti-U.S. riot in Burmese history was on. Countless embassy windows were shattered, and the embassy walls besmeared with paint. Burmese police and troops fired into the crowd. When the smoke cleared, two demonstrators were dead, 53 injured...