Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chore of the week was to address the annual American Legion convention in Miami. Most Legionnaires remembered that in speaking against a Legion-sponsored veterans' pension bill in 1949, Kennedy said on the floor of the House: "The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since 1918." Noting wryly in passing that he had "learned a good deal about the Legion, especially since 1949," Legionnaire Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country...
...showing in the first TV debate with Kennedy. A combination of fatigue, inept makeup, and a me-too approach (abandoned soon afterward), plus the resourcefulness in argument and forcefulness of character that Kennedy showed, made Kennedy the winner on the TV screens (many radio listeners, hearing the voices only, thought that Nixon...
...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...vague way, Mark Higgins was determined to do good in the world-just how, he was not sure. Tall (6 ft. 5 in.) and high-strung, he could not settle down to the idea of college after boarding school, and the thought of going to work in his wealthy father's steel-fabricating plant in Worcester, Mass, appalled him. He decided that a year working with Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month...
...Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that a crown is a special-occasion headpiece: "I only wear it when I'm in Denmark.'' The answer did not quite satisfy the boy, who later told newsmen that he was sure this was a special occasion-because...