Word: killeen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What the hell is this?' " Pro Golfer Mason Rudolph had a similar reaction when, as an Army private in 1958, he lost the All-Army tournament to Moody by one stroke. Stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1967, Moody trounced three businessmen from nearby Killeen so regularly in high-stakes matches that they decided it might be cheaper to sponsor him on the pro circuit with a first-year guarantee of $20,000 in expenses against 50% of his winnings. At first, it looked like a bad investment. After quitting the Army, Moody won only...
...appearances at Central Texas College in Killeen, the Space Assembly Facility at Michoud, La., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew. Over and over again, he poured scorn on "the complainers, the critics, the doubters" and those ubiquitous "nay sayers." Repeatedly he called the roll of his Administration's breakthroughs: Medicare, aid to primary and secondary education, the poverty program and all the rest. Predictably ignoring the fact that he himself slowed down innovation and sought to curb spending increases in the past year...
Without getting very specific, Johnson seemed to be promising a revival of the Great Society. That euphoric phrase itself had fallen into disuse in the Administration that popularized it, but at Killeen, Johnson used it twice-with emphasis. "We are rich enough," he declared. "Now the big question is: with your stomachs full, has it pushed your heart out of position where you no longer care...
Nugent in 2000. At Killeen, he felt most at home sentimentally: "My grandfather drove his longhorns across this prairie on the way to Abilene." But it was at Bal Harbour that he was more comfortable politically. Amid the shards of the Johnsonian consensus, most of big labor remains loyal. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting...
MELVINA L. WARRICK Killeen, Texas...