Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still speaking of Lyndon, Goldwater concluded: "Of course, when he gets back here to Texas and has those high-heeled boots on, and that ten-gallon hat, and he calls you 'Pardner,' he sounds like a conservative banker. But I can tell you in Washington when he wears just plain old shoes and says, 'How do you do,' he speaks an entirely different language, that of the radical liberals. And whether he likes it or not, or even knows it, he is backing socialism...
...unofficial Goldwater headquarters are in an unmarked room at a Rome Y.M.C.A. Talenti, a onetime banker who now owns a cattle ranch ten miles outside Rome, grumbles, "If we made it the official headquarters without getting all the bureaucratic authorization we need, we might all be deported...
...School graduate and an armed-services expert who is one of the most influential of all Republican Congressmen. In Allen W. Dulles, 71, former CIA chief, the Commission had an investigator well experienced in the ways of Communists, fascists and plain crackpots; in John McCloy, 69, it had a banker who distinguished himself as Harry Truman's U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and as John Kennedy's disarmament adviser...
...Wall Street banker's daughter astonished the Russians this summer by asking for an iron so she could press her own dresses. And Neva Rockefeller, 20, who was visiting Nikita Khrushchev with her father David, is independent in other ways. A Radcliffe junior and aspiring playwright, she made known her engagement last week to Gerald Michael Medearis, 24, a St. Louis public-school graduate, who interrupted his Harvard education for four years to "find himself" by working in a Hollywood sound studio...
Better Motivated. The organization got started in 1949 when Mrs. Ranald H. Macdonald, wife of a New York investment banker, and a small group of volunteers began recording textbooks for G.l.s blinded in World War II. The Korean war casualty list sharply increased the need for help, and in 1951 Recording for the Blind was incorporated. Now, at the New York headquarters and 15 other recording units from Miami to Los Angeles, teams of readers and monitors (who check the spoken word against the text) spend hours inside soundproof booths to build up a catalogue of titles that stands...