Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House was in near bedlam last week as staffers struggled against time to complete arrangements for the President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
...foreign aid appropriations bill, which pushed through the Senate 52 to 22 after a slam-bang 21 hours of debate. The Senate slashed $110,000,000 off a House-approved version of the measure, finally passed a $2.94 billion total - which was well below the Administration's request ($3.4 billion) and marked the lowest foreign aid appropriation since 1957. The House quickly voted 189 to 89 to accept the Senate figure...
...Bang! Bang! Bang! NBC's Chet Huntley, for one, is worried that too many TV reporters in Viet Nam concentrate far too much on Safer-like shots, the kind of flaming action that ensures an appearance on the air at home. The military thinks that too many correspondents are out there for their "own personal aggrandizement," Huntley told a Variety reporter recently. ABC's Howard K. Smith took the same tack when he returned from a recent visit to Viet Nam. During the Buddhist demonstrations, he said, "television gave the impression that the whole country was rioting, instead...
Married. Senta Berger, 25, Austrian starlet, the tastiest thing in Bang! Bang! You're Dead.'; and Dr. Michael Verhoeven, 28, a pediatrician; both for the first time; in Munich...
...weapons of parliamentary debate throughout the world vary considerably. Britons belabor one another with icy scorn, Greeks bang their desk tops, and Italians hurl inkwells. The U.S. House of Representatives has witnessed its share of fist fights and even, in the 19th century, quick-draw confrontations with cocked pistols on the floor. Black magic has its place in the legislative assemblies of modern Africa. Last week in South Korea, a new, but old, weapon was added to the armory...