Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kennedy is planning to build chicken coops at the White House-a good place to raise friars. He is also sprinkling the White House lawn with bird seed-to provide for all the cardinals who will be flocking there...
...White House, Jack Kennedy answers the phone, says, "Hello . . . Oh, hello, Father . . . Yes, Father . . . Certainly, Father . . . Goodbye, Father." As he hangs up. Wife Jackie asks: "Was that home or Rome?" ¶It is in the early days of the Kennedy Administration. All is quiet in the subterranean war room of U.S. Defense Headquarters. Suddenly a light flashes on the desk of the top general on duty. He checks quickly, discovers that the Russians have just unleashed a flock of atomic missiles against the U.S. Instantly, the general grabs his "hot phone'' to the White House, snaps: "Mr. President...
...wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated lunchroom. A restaurant official ordered Boynton to leave, and when Boynton declined, called the cops. Boynton was fined $10 in police court, and his conviction was upheld by Virginia's Supreme Court...
...sidewalk outside Manhattan's general sessions court, Hulan Jack dazedly spoke to newsmen: "I say to all of you that I am fully convinced of my innocence." A few moments earlier, an all-white jury had reported itself as totally unconvinced of Jack's innocence. Hulan Jack, borough president of Manhattan for seven years, faced a possible three years in prison, $1,500 in fines-and the end of a remarkable political career...
...typical day for Strauss, when he is not off at NATO meetings, inspecting bases or addressing political rallies, begins at 7:30. He has breakfast (tea, dark bread with butter and white cheese) with his wife Marianne and the baby at his villa above the Rhine. By the time his black BMW delivers him at the office at 8:45, his staff has already clipped the news from 140 German and foreign newspapers. Strauss plows through it all. Working at top speed on a schedule prepared 14 days in advance, he fires machine-gun orders at subordinates, sees people, attends...