Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eisenhower towered as the world's best-known, best-liked citizen. His trip had been one of breathtaking excitement, high point of a bold venture into personal diplomacy. How that venture came about and developed was one of the year's most fascinating behind-the-scenes stories. But its real meaning lay in an understanding of Ike the Man and Eisenhower the President...
...leader of national and international stature. Regardless of his decision, he is a man destined for continuing leadership in the Republican Party and the nation in the years ahead." But the Nixonites did a slow burn as they began to study the complete text. "It's a real kick in the stomach," said a pro-Nixon Cabinet member. They stewed most over the charge that the Republican convention was "controlled" on Nixon's behalf, saw Rocky's charge as a major break for the Democrats...
...Paper Moon, Pennies from Heaven}, joined in the singing of the Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...
...same time, many of the crowd were most interested in the 46-year-old Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband the earl had sued her-and who in turn had sued her husband-for divorce on grounds of adultery. The scandal had fed the tabloids for weeks, but the real jolt in the case turned out to be the decision...
Housing Built by Two. The son of Socialist parents, and brought up in the poverty-stricken back streets of Manchester, Ernest Marples left grade school to become an apprentice accountant, got into real estate and contracting in London, "and could have retired at 31." Marples is a self-made standout on a Tory Front Bench otherwise filled entirely by university men and Establishment types. He gets down to any problem personally, whether donning a diver's suit to examine the Thames's muddy bottom before his firm drives piles for a London power plant, or cycling through Burgundy...