Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tixier's ace card was his claim that the assassination attempt was actually a bidon (phony) plot cooked up by Gaullist officials to scare the President into taking greater security precautions. But Tixier was made to look so ridiculous in trying to prove the charge that he dropped this strategy. Even Tixier's defense witnesses (though mostly staunch advocates of Algerie francaise) had little sympathy for the five. Snapped General Fernand Gam-biez: "It is because of maneuvers of men like them that Algerie francaise was lost...
...timber piled high at rail sidings, and lumberjacks knew that layoffs were in the wind. Towering grain elevators were idled in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin because farmers could not move their crops. Cargill Inc. shut its big soybean processing plant in Chicago, and the manager of its Omaha terminal, Ace R. Cory, muttered, "We're just plain out of business...
...things began to go wrong. Though he has won eleven games (compared with 19 last year at this time), Whitey Ford up to last week had pitched only three complete games all season long. His arm ruined by years of throwing a tortuous screwball. Bullpen Ace Arroyo retired temporarily to the disabled list. Taunted almost beyond his endurance by beercan-throwing fans and ill-equipped to handle the problems of instant fame, Maris was hitting an anemic .249, will be lucky to manage 40 home runs this year. Manager Houk had only one .300 hitter−Mickey Mantle...
...Alfons Landa and two vice presidents quit amid reports of angry board room battles for control of the company. Last week they were joined by Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., 46, who resigned as president of the company's largest division, Fairbanks, Morse. Lanphier−the World War II ace who gunned down Japan's Pacific Commander, Admiral Yamamoto, and later rose to become vice president of General Dynamics' VConvair Division before joining Fairbanks in 1960−was diplomatically silent about his reasons for leaving. But by week's end two Fairbanks, Morse vice presidents...
...unanimity of Republican opposition but what he called the "handful" of Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen slyly christened them "living profiles in courage") who had made defeat possible-actually a third of the Senate's Democrats. They included such prominent Democrats as Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright, Ace Investigator John McClellan, moderate Liberal Mike Monroney, former Vice Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, and Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell, as well as Hayden, Randolph and Kerr...