Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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What's in a Name? As Kennedy and his men discussed jobs and appointments, he put through a call to Washington that got his Administration off to a popular start. He asked Central Intelligence Director Allen Dulles and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover to stay in their jobs. The two, who had worked in Government through at least three Administrations, readily agreed...
...newsmen crowded into the Hyannis National Guard Armory for Kennedy's first full-fledged press conference, agreed to follow general ground rules of the Eisenhower Administration (no reporters may phone, type or leave the room till the conference is done), then haggled for a while over what to call Kennedy. Earlier in the campaign they had shifted from Jack to Senator. Now "Mr. President-elect" sounded too clumsy; "Mr. President" would not be fitting till Jan. 20, 1961. Later, Kennedy himself cleared it up, asked that he be called "Senator-a mighty good title," though the press conference ended...
Tourists file through the garish, neon-lit Wanchai quarter-the world of Suzie Wong-dodging red rickshas and the green, double-decker tramcars. There are bars and bar girls on every corner, big dance halls, and at Typhoon Shelter, prostitutes perched on the deck of sampans call their wares to passing sailors along the quay. But Hong Kong night life is hardly wild in the old Shanghai tradition and barely compares with that of present-day Tokyo or Manila...
...victory was the answer to the call whose theme Jack Kennedy had uttered with such pounding force in the two months of his campaign. It was a call predicated on the proposition that the heirs to the Eisenhower years lacked the courage and vision to lead the nation through the troubled '60s. It was a call that forced Richard Nixon into a defensive posture from which he never fully recovered-even with the last-minute intervention of President Eisenhower...
...packed typists, news analysts and executives into the arena-sized Studio 8-H in Manhattan's RCA Building. It organized seven political experts into a "Victory Desk" that decided the fate of states and the nation a jump ahead of the electorate. "We didn't want to call it a Concession Desk," said an NBC executive. "You know, like a hot-dog concession. But that's what it is: a hot-dog desk...