Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Harvard University Debate Council emerged with a decisive victory in the Annual Tufts Invitational Debate Tournament Saturday. The Cambridge contingent argued the affirmative side of this year's topic, "Resolved: That the United States should adopt a program of compusory health insurance for all citizens...
...nickname inherited from Grandfather James Johnson, an oldtime Republican sheriff of rural Fayette County) was nominated for the federal bench at the age of 37 in 1955. He has probably faced more tough segregation cases than any other Southern judge. Johnson is crisply tough on lawyers, does not always side with the Government in civil rights cases. He handed down the original decisions desegregating Montgomery's parks and bus lines; last February, however, he upheld the expulsion of six Negroes from Alabama College for taking part in a racial demonstration, sharply chided them for improperly violating public order...
...South will be even stronger than before in the coming session. "There is no fight in sight between parties," said Holland. "It will be a fight between conservatives and liberals from now on . . . I expect there'll be a lot of help from conservatives on the Republican side of the aisle." Southerners seconding Holland pointed out that, industrial states or no, Kennedy would have lost without solid Southern support...
Sockless Guests. Mailer reached his Barbary Shore last week after a monumental weekend that began with a party in his West Side Manhattan apartment. The 200 guests were right out of a Mailer manuscript: poets, prizefighters, homosexuals, writers, Big Beat Allen Ginsburg, Actor Franciosa, Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, Critic Delmore Schwartz. Syndicated Name Dropper Leonard Lyons left in a dudgeon when the sockless hipsters began to outnumber the quality folk ("I couldn't see the furniture for the beats"). The host and hostess welcomed their swarming guests in separate rooms, and as the party roared past the midnight hour...
...suitcase of memories. For one middle-aged Texas oilman recently, it was the long, goose-pimpled wait for a rendezvous with a $50 floozy in a plum-colored parlor; for a life-insurance salesman from New Jersey, it was a harmless evening in an elegant and naughty North-Side Key Club; for a mackinawed Dakota farmer back in 1906, it was a dinner at the old Saratoga Hotel, where after ordering a fancy city dish called oysters on the half shell, he devoured the oysters and then crunched through the shells. But though Chicago, in its own sullen and grimy...