Word: proof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking Charge. The Los Angeles that Johnson rolled into was shuddering proof that Operation Kennedy had again outrun the wildest guesses of the old pros. From the Kennedy command post on the Biltmore Hotel's eighth floor, the team headed by Jack's brother Bob (the "brash young man," as a New York Times editorial called him) took charge of arriving delegates, newsmen and even the political atmosphere. All week the nation's TV, radio and press were fed on rumors of impending Kennedy gains while the actual gains in delegates could still be counted on one hand...
...billionaire is U.S. Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 67, who last year plunked down a million more or less, for Sutton Place, the Surrey domain of Britain's Duke of Sutherland, partly to save money on his hotel bills in London and Paris. Last week, as if in final proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried...
...explains: "Identification leads to power drives. The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place. A.A. takes no denominational, political or economic stands. It stays out of controversy. We do not claim that anonymity is a virtue. Rather, it is a protection." In proof of his own passion for anonymity, Bill W. has refused an honorary doctorate from Yale. "A degree for what?" he asks. "For being the world's leading drunk...
...Castle. It is the work of the great French Silversmith Jacques Roettiers and part of it was probably ordered by the third Earl of Berkeley for the 21st birthday of his son in 1737. Rare and beautiful as it surely is, it fetched a price that astonished even astonishment-proof Sotheby's. After only 2½ minutes of bidding, the gavel went down on the figure offered by Frank Partridge & Sons of London and New York...
...merciless way of sizing up people. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau "hadn't a brain in his head." F.D.R.'s aide, Harry Hopkins, "had a feeling of a mistress toward President Roosevelt." Pundit Walter Lippmann's "job in life is to sit in a noise-proof room and draft things on paper" without ever going through the "heartbreaks of getting agreement out of people...