Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police finally decide to end the riot with tear gas. In Washington, Bobby Kennedy was white-lipped with anger when he heard the news. Moving swiftly, he deputized some 400 nonmilitary officials-largely deputy marshals and Treasury agents. He sent them by chartered flights into Alabama, under the personal command of Assistant Attorney General Byron ("Whizzer") White. Attorney General Kennedy also set in motion injunctions against the Ku Klux Klan and other prime segregationist groups to prevent them from interfering with peaceful interstate travel...
...expect. Many Canadians are resentful of their nation's economic and cultural dependence on the U.S., and Canada strongly opposed U.S. intervention in Cuba. But the Kennedys soon melted the Canadian ice. At a formal state dinner for 100, every head snapped around as though at parade-ground command to admire the entrance of Jackie Kennedy in her pure white silk sheath. At the following reception for 500, her husband deftly fielded all topics, talked wheat with a Saskatchewan reporter, education with a college girl, trucks with a transport official and freedom of the press with a publisher...
Like Javits, Lefkowitz could count on strong support from New York City's Jewish voters. But unlike Javits, he would not be likely to win the endorsement of the city's Liberal Party-and the 300,000 votes that the Liberals usually command have long been considered necessary for a Republican victory. The G.O.P.'s private polls indicate that Lefkowitz would give Bumbling Bob Wagner a close race and might triumph-but to do so he, or any other Republican or Fusion candidate, would have to win over one out of every three voters who supported Wagner...
...Robert Fuoss (rhymes with mousse), 48, the same young promotion and advertising-idea man who, nine years out of the University of Michigan, accompanied Hibbs to the top as Post managing editor. Though it is bigger than ever at 6,377,367 circulation, the magazine that Robert Fuoss will command is in serious financial trouble; and so is its parent, Curtis Publishing Co., which 35 years ago was the sturdy colossus of the magazine world...
...South. From Harper Lee. whose To Kill a Mockingbird won this year's Pulitzer Prize, the list runs back to writers of remarkable quality. William Styron, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter are but a few whose first fiction showed them to be in full command of talents that some novelists fail to achieve in a lifetime. How do they get that way? Is it, as Author Lee has suggested, that the South is the last refuge of eccentrics in America? Or is it that the South is the only region in America with a lingering...