Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...played a major role in bringing out the compact, best-selling Falcon (and a lesser one in putting together the ill-fated Edsel). He also dismayed car connoisseurs by changing the sporty Thunderbird from a two-seater to a four-seater-a decision, however, that more than tripled "T-bird" sales. As a reward for such judgments, McNamara has become a millionaire, and last year earned $410,000 (about $150,000 after taxes). Last week McNamara announced that in addition to taking a mammoth salary cut to serve as Defense Secretary (statutory pay: $25,000, plus use of a chauffeured...
...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...
...Kennedy is planning to build chicken coops at the White House-a good place to raise friars. He is also sprinkling the White House lawn with bird seed-to provide for all the cardinals who will be flocking there...
...British Birds. Apart from the high-level gossip, she gives a picture of the astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian...
...H.Greenewalt (250 pp.; Doubleday; $22.50), may become a classic of natural history. Author Greenewalt, president of mighty E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., has written a monograph, understandable to laymen, on his hobby-hummingbirds. Greenewalt offers some intriguing hummingbird lore, including the fact that they are the only birds that can hover with body motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color photographs, the largest...