Word: windup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAREENING toward a pre-Christmas windup of its year-long session, what may be the most delinquent Congress in U.S. history last week took time out for a classic confrontation between legislative and executive branches. The issue was inflation...
...Broadway and in road companies. The stage version is less than 300 performances away from the longest-running musical record held by My Fair Lady. It now stars Pearl Bailey, who heads an all-Negro company. Until the topless or the all-nude version comes along, a windup Dolly will have to suffice...
...windup of his two-week tour, Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy announced that New York was strictly Endsville: "Saturated. Tense. Not fun at all." But the burly general was not all that bored. At a reception in Washington, he was approached by a Soviet official who wanted to introduce him to NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine. Beregovoy, lost in contemplation of a braless blonde's plunging neckline, barely managed a curt "how do you do." "Georgy," growled the official, "this is the constructor of the American Apollo." Beregovoy did not even look up. The official led Paine away, then went...
...stealing second, third and home in the span of seven pitches. Martin insists that stealing home, despite its rarity, is easier than a theft of second base because a smart runner can get a sizable jump on a pitcher, especially if the hurler is going into a full windup. Carew makes that arguable statement sound unassailable. "Each time he stole home," says Martin, "you'd think he'd been shot out of a cannon...
...supporters noted dryly that as a Senator, Poher had not opposed creation of the state-security tribunal that he was now criticizing. But Pompidou himself declined to comment on most of Poher's criticism. Like the majority of Frenchmen, Pompidou seemed less interested in the campaign windup than in looking ahead to a France under his leadership. Reconciliation. Well aware that he would need the trust of his citizens above all, Pompidou has constantly emphasized reconciliation-between Gaullists and non-Gaullists, between workers and patrons, between the presidency and the legislature, between the old France and the new. Politically...