Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
...Judging from Mayor Yorty's comment, "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor," I conclude that Mayor Sam 1) has never read beyond the second paragraph of the city charter, or 2) is out of his mind. Considering his meaningless bickering with the City Council; his uncalled for, pseudo expert opinions on Viet Nam; and his strange proclivity for the word "plot," I incline toward the second possibility...
Beyond Authority. Sam Yorty can rightfully say that he lacks the power to do many of the things that need doing. He himself once said: "Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the city charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor." But Yorty ran and won, and he has shown by his actions as mayor that, when he wants to, he can exert a good deal more power and responsibility than he admits to having. Despite his faults and his constant feuds-Angelenos tend to be either 100% for him or 100% against...
...that Charles de Gaulle made his first appearance on TIME'S cover. Then he was just emerging as a world figure-in wartime London, rallying his countrymen in and outside occupied France to his Free French cause. "In the field," said the closing paragraph of that first De Gaulle cover story, he has "only 40,000 men, but in France he is building a greater army . , . If Vichy and Hitler begin to crumble, the Free French in France will have not merely a fifth column. They may have the nation...
...standard answer to a routine question asked all visiting Arab states men - so standard, in fact, that even the New York Times, which is notably sympathetic to Israel, lodged it in the last paragraph of a story on page...