Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Menuwise, I will never forget the day in 1960 when I stopped hungry at a drive-in with pretensions in Denver. There listed was an open-faced sandwich, "succulent slices of roast beef with delicious au jus." So help...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
John Heyburn closed out the Harvard scoring in ninth place. Behind him, junior Erik Roth took tenth and sophomore Howie Foye took twelfth to sandwich M.I.T.'s John Yankaskas...
...everyone who has worked with him is convinced that there are really two Wally Schirras. One will be best remembered for his high jinks in space. On his first mission, he smuggled an unauthorized steak sandwich aboard the spacecraft. In mid-December 1965, during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand...
Nonetheless, the lackluster or extremist quality of his opponents is likely to ensure Fulbright a fifth term. One candidate, Foster Johnson, 53, campaigns wearing a sandwich board "so nobody will have any trouble knowing who I am." Another, Bobby K. Hayes, 37, preaches an isolationist populist program that includes such unlikely reforms as a $2.50-an-hour minimum wage and elimination of capital gains taxes. Fulbright's strongest adversary is former State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 44, an avowed segregationist whose extremism as the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor in 1966 helped make Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas' first...