Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Richard Daley and his Chicago police, he is clearly a hero on his own turf. That became evident last week when Chicagoans, responding to worldwide criticism of Daley and his cops' tough tactics, reacted as if they had been under personal attack. When Daley returned to his modest brick bungalow in the Bridgeport section of the South Side, 800 admirers greeted him with cheers and signs: HOORAY FOR DALEY and PRIDE OF THE U.S.-CHICAGO POLICE. In the drab Six Corners neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Construction Worker Arthur Faber, 45, expressed the sentiments of perhaps a majority...
...maintained a pristine record of personal honesty. Yet, like any other expert monarch, he has always known where and how to tolerate corruption within his realm. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley grew up in the gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor's lines to the Negro community atrophy...
...three singles released along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band...
...Mclntire's movement has been buying Cape May real estate, including the two largest hotels and a complex of beachside houses and cottages. It now owns property there assessed at $1,500,000. The hotels are operated on a nonprofit basis. Hotelier Mclntire keeps his room rates modest (as low as $11 a day single) and his guests sober (neither hotel has a bar). His takeover in Cape May has provided a permanent headquarters for his religious movement, which he calls the Twentieth Century Reformation. A jowly six-footer with a shock of wavy hair greying at the temples...
...spending 21 years as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Johnson's Cabinet. When Gardner was HEW Secretary, Johnson effusively declared that he "can take you up on the mountain and show you the promised land. And what's more, he can lead you there." This modest book is a collection of excerpts from Gardner's speeches and writings, including quotes from his two earlier works, Excellence and Self-Renewal. In it, as he deals with contemporary social problems, Gardner demonstrates a depth of moral vision that is matched by a provocative...