Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was talk that a movement to "stop" him was forming. Word spread in the press that United Mine Workers' ex-President John L. Lewis would never forgive Kennedy for his role in passing the 1959 Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill (called Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin in the UMW Journal). And West Virginia's freshman U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, a strong Lyndon Johnson man, announced openly: "If you are for Adlai Stevenson, Senator Stuart Symington, Senator Johnson or John Doe, this primary may be your last chance to stop Kennedy. I'm voting for Humphrey...
Says Kennedy's wealthy father, Joseph P. Kennedy: "Let's not con ourselves. The only issue is whether a Catholic can be elected President." It is not, by a long shot, the only issue. The Wall Street Journal was closer when it editorialized last week: "The country would do better, we think, to face the fact honestly that religion is, and always has been, a political issue and that it is not improper for it to be so . . .So let us by all means not bar religion from politics. Let us even in this campaign ask ourselves anew...
Brash, hawk-nosed Challenger Tal is Botvinnik's exact opposite. A graduate of the philology department at the Latvian State University in Riga, he has made chess his profession; when he is not playing the game he is writing about "it in a Riga chess journal, which he edits. During a game, he makes his moves swiftly. Between moves, he circles endlessly around the table. Then, as though in response to an electric brain-flash, he stops in his tracks, hovers over the board, and, when his turn comes, swoops down like a hawk on the piece he intends...
...Tolbutamide (trade name: Orinase), usually prescribed only for diabetes, also shows promise in reducing tremor and rigidity in victims of Parkinson's disease, so that they can do more in caring for themselves, reported two upstate New York doctors in the A.M.A. Journal. It is, they emphasized, no cure...
...because, explained Kuykendall, the FPC was waiting until all the expenses of building it were in. Kuykendall insisted that there was nothing to hide about the affair, said that he had informed the committee of the calls himself, although not until the story had been printed in a trade journal...