Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Speaker would be sensitive to their needs and demands. Instead of the system of divided responsibility that now prevails, one man could be charged with leadership. In fact, this was the system used by the House until 1910, when Congressmen revolted against the autocratic rule of Speaker Joseph Cannon. Better 21 dukes than one monarch, opponents might well argue...
...fighter-bombers were weaving back and forth across North Viet Nam north of the 19th parallel in what appeared to be bewildering bombing patterns. Flares were drifting down to illuminate the vulnerable ships and docks of Haiphong harbor. As North Viet Nam's air-defense commanders opened up with cannon and missilery, MIGs scrambled into action all across the country, and South China also went into a state of advanced military readiness. To many North Vietnamese, it looked as if the U.S. were invading their country. It was 2 a.m. when allied monitors in South Viet Nam heard...
Divorced. Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 53, educator and Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (The Age of Jackson, 1945, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, 1965) who served J.F.K. as a special assistant; by Marian Cannon Schlesinger, on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment; after 30 years of marriage, four children; in Cambridge, Mass. Alimony: $4,700 a month...
...circus-goer always likes the opening parade more than the grand finale. The man comes out of the cannon and lands in the net before you even see him in the air, and more often than not the whole thing strikes you as a hooked-up way of closing up shop. In a trial so charged with incidental forces and pressures, the isolation of a single major issue or a simple choosing of sides just wouldn't do at all. I've been to the circus and I know...
Farther west, Nixon had selected five incumbent Democratic Senators as likely targets for unseating: North Dakota's Quentin Burdick, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Utah's Frank Moss, New Mexico's Joseph Montoya and Nevada's Howard Cannon. Conservatives were recruited to run well-financed campaigns against the ostensibly vulnerable quintet. Campaigners from Washington hustled through. Agnew anointed Moss "the Western regional chairman of the Radic-Lib Eastern Establishment." Moss was re-elected easily, and the four other Democrats also won. Three of the Republicans put up against the incumbent Senators were House members; Democrats captured those three seats...