Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hour's Chat. Throughout the rest of his busy week, Jack Kennedy provided ample evidence of becoming the best hide-and-seek player the presidency has ever had. One afternoon, after a quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to the suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack...
Despite all attempts to hide the facts, word got out last week: Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel, 66 and portly (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), had suffered a partial paralysis of the left arm and side that also affected his speech. As relatives secretly gathered at his bedside in Ankara, anxious members of the ruling junta held hurried conferences with Gursel's doctors to determine what to say to the public and when...
...Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns...
...couple of hundred miles away in the Sierra Escambray, Dr. Manuel Fajardo, 29, Castro's close friend and personal physician, who was also commander of the local militia, intercepted two boys heading into hills that still hide some 300 oppositionists. Dr. Fajardo opened fire and was shot dead in the fight. Fidel Castro gave Fajardo the revolutionary version of a Chicago-style funeral, and bitterly blamed "the bandits of the Pentagon." Meanwhile, in Peking, "Che" Guevara got for Cuba's bare-larder economy the biggest foreign loan Red China ever made-$60 million for five years...
...even if a serious deformity did not exist), because the women identified their noses with those of their fathers, felt that they were distastefully masculine. Women patients often told Jacobson that their noses "would look better on a man's face"; a few went to considerable lengths to hide their profiles from view. Even among married women, Psychiatrist Jacobson found, success of the nose-bobbing operation depended a great deal on whether the patient's mother approved the result...