Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Globe's news reporter sat up front with the TV-men, huddled over his notebook. A secret serviceman stopped a boy carrying a canvas bag at the front door. The bag was full of dirty laundry...
...upset Richard Nixon in his drive for the G.O.P. nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller must combine near-solid support of moderate-to-liberal Republicans with a strong showing in the polls. Last week the poll sters produced a mixed bag of returns. Louis Harris found Rocky lagging be hind both Democratic candidates and nearly tied with Nixon, but Gallup showed him leading both Nixon and Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and just behind a surprisingly strong Senator Eugene McCarthy...
...basic salary was indeed only $30 a week, but with his coaching fees, he says, "I was making more money than the guy who owned the club." He picked up another $600 in the 1966 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, playing with an unmatched bag of clubs ("I must have had seven different brands"); last year, better outfitted, he placed fifth and won $6,000 at the Open in Springfield, N.J. That persuaded Trevino to become a regular on the pro tour-a gamble that has paid off handsomely. In a year...
...week also produced a mixed bag of claims from people who said they had some special knowledge of the sullen defendant. A former Castro commandant, José Duarte of Miami, said he had scuffled with Sirhan a month ago in Los Angeles when he heard Sirhan tell a group of leftists: "What the U.S. needs is another Castro." In London, Journalist Jon Kimche, who is known mainly for his sensational anti-Arab diatribes, wrote in the Evening Standard that Sirhan had returned to the Middle East twice, in 1964 and 1966. The story was flatly denied...
Real Society women tend to be tweedy-leathery, observes Birmingham -the leathery part being the texture of their perpetually tanned skin. "Hair is a blond mixture, streaked from the sun, of middle length, and is often caught at the back of the neck in a little net bag." Despite such allure, a man of Real Society may become jaded, and if this occurs, says the author, he may be permitted to keep a mistress. Here is a true class distinction: the lives of the lofty are spacious enough for mistresses, but the lower orders have only adultery...