Word: branches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More will be needed before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential seal clutches a large olive branch in its right claw. With some oratorical license, he laments that the eagle on the vice-presidential seal holds a mere sprig of olive. "You let me have a handful," he tells crowds, "and believe me, you'll have peace...
...plausible version of the shock ploy. After hymning the Democratic record under such great Presidents as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey announces that it is indeed time for a change-a Democratic change. He analyzes the nation's discontents, proposes root-and-branch cures, and submits a list of priorities based on de-escalating a war that, however noble its original aims, has become irrelevant to the more pressing needs of a divided America. The line would go something like this: "To recognize past imperfections, my friends and fellow Americans, is only to recognize...
McCrocklin Caper. Though moribund, it did not die. And lately, it has shown every sign of revival. One recent issue reported the revolt of black athletes at the University of Texas' El Paso branch; another took up the cudgels for a long-neglected tribe of Indians. As usual, both stories had been largely ignored by the daily Texas press. So was the Observer's inside account of the editorial revolt and shake-up at the Austin American-Statesman, where pinchpenny management refused to replate for another edition on the night of Robert Kennedy's death...
Olimpieri's arrival at Andover was engineered with the aid of the Committee of Religious Concern for Peace (the New England branch of the National Committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam) and New England Resistance, whom Olimpieri had contacted before leaving his post...
Still, many corporate employers now seem to have a friendlier attitude toward ex-priests. The Manhattan branch of Bearings for Re-Establishment reports that starting salaries for ex-clerics now range from $7,500 to $20,000. While some have found work as stockbrokers or industrial executives, most former priests tend to translate their spiritual concern into academic or community service. Many seek jobs as teachers-some have even been hired by Catholic schools and colleges-or as social workers. A large number of ex-priests have married former nuns-an understandable result of their common background...