Word: truce
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With visions of his truce session going up in smoke, Fair Player Taft tried to intervene, tut-tutted: "That subject has been exhausted. Each side has stated his position." He explained that complaints of unfair campaign tactics would be screened by his committee, then referred to newspapers for public airing. At that, Butler wondered about the treatment his party would get at the hands of "editors whose papers are 85% in favor of the Republicans...
Last March Rayburn moved fast: he proposed that Texas go to the national convention with Johnson in the dual role of favorite-son candidate and delegation chairman. Governor Shivers, anxious for a truce, agreed to the favorite-son proposition-but he was bound and determined that, come what may, he would himself head the delegation. And he made it clear that he would feel free to throw Texas to the Republicans again if the Democrats nominated someone, e.g., Adlai Stevenson, who was not to his liking. Shivers turned down Rayburn's proposal, attacked Johnson personally-and the fight...
There is a truce between the sexes. Un like 13-year-olds, the boys no longer automatically go off together at a party, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Basically, Fourteen is a social animal. He is intrigued by the notion of "personality." When asked about her best friend, a girl will say: "I have a whole bunch of best friends." For the girls especially, this is the age of communication. School is a place to gossip in; home is a place to telephone from...
Last week Proprietor Kinsel and the U.S. Air Force finally signed a truce. The Air Force made a movie (hero: Delbert Kinsel) to be shown at his drive-in. From the screen he welcomes his patrons, reminds them that they are just across the road from one of the nation's most vital Air Force bases, and points out that each time a jet passes overhead it means that the U.S. Air Force is on guard. He also suggests that by tuning up their carside loudspeakers patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble...
...speakers went into great detail on the refugee problem, continual truce violations, and Zionist proposals for expansion. Miss Herlitz asserted that Israel was satisfied with her present territory and would never try to expand. She asked the Arabs to "take the chip off their shoulder" and approach negotiation with a more positive attitude. Sayegh responded that his country could not accept happenings as "accomplished facts regardless of their method of accomplishment...