Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week the phrase "Terry Baker" had become the all-purpose good word around the tidy Oregon State campus in Corvallis. An ambidextrous, introspective, gangling sophomore, Terry Baker has a pale pink face, an Adam's apple that dances when he talks like a walnut on a string, a curiously narrow torso and a pair of thick, rock-muscled legs. At 19, Baker is still a growing boy of 6 ft. 3 in.. 195 lbs. Right now he has the most impressive record in college football. Going into last week's game with Stanford, Baker was running...
...sole end and purpose of all production," said Economist Adam Smith, is the consumer. Last week U.S. business, watching the consumer like a hopeful but apprehensive parent, might have varied Adam Smith's dictum to read that the U.S. consumer is the master key to what will happen to production-and how much will be sold-in the months ahead. What business saw was a consumer growing steadily more cautious about his purchases, but still buying at a rate that is helping to steady the economy...
...Disputed by U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, an ordained Northern Baptist minister, who insists that his Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has more active members...
...married to Actor Melvyn Douglas, "whose real name is Hesselberg."* New York's Negroes (980,000) generally vote Democratic, but Kennedy lost some support among Negro leaders by putting Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, may have won some back now that Harlem's top politico, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, is campaigning for him. Nixon gained ground in Harlem by visiting Africa, by praising the Southern sit-ins, and by enlisting ex-Ballplayer Jackie Robinson for his staff. Puerto Ricans number 700,000 in the city, and one of their idols is Spanish-speaking Nelson Rockefeller, who is going...
...Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who swung to Eisenhower in 1956 and before the Democratic Convention measured off Jack Kennedy's record on civil rights as "bad for a man from Massachusetts," reconsidered again, gave his "full, all-out support" to Kennedy and Johnson...