Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts' John Kennedy had been waging the battle of their political lives from Superior to Fond du Lac. Kennedy's 70-year-old mother Rose, flanked by a bevy of daughters, left no Kaffeeklatsch unpercolated; Muriel Humphrey passed out thousands of copies of her celebrated recipe for beef soup. Brother Ted Kennedy gamely made the first ski jump of his career for the cause, and Brother Bob, erstwhile counsel of the Senate's Mc-Clellan Committee, told bug-eyed audiences of farmers his hair-raising tales of the sinister labor racketeers...
...until early 1962, when he would have 200 missiles tied into the SAGE net in the industrial Northeast and North Central states. To make up the difference in defenses against manned bombers, he promised to plug gaps in the three-year-old Distant Early Warning net (DEW line), beef up the manned interceptor-the F-104 and F106 - by better radar and longer-range airborne, atom-armed Falcon missiles...
Naturally, their clothes get somewhat rumpled in all the excitement, and after almost a year underground, the supply of bully beef in their rucksacks has run low. But everyone shows a fine, ruddy complexion-zirconburn?-and not once has anybody made an unseemly proposal to the heroine. As a matter of fact, not even the villain is very wicked. The worst thing he does on the whole trip: he eats the duck...
...plate, to muster up $5,000,000 for the G.O.P. campaign treasury. All got the same no-frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu put it): "Eisenhower vegetable soup," sliced beef, corn pudding, "homemade" bread and apple pie. Most tied into the same closed-circuit TV network while Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in Manhattan summoned up the G.O.P.'s biggest names (Vice President Richard Nixon in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington, Ambassador Henry Cabot...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The first of a new series reflecting the net work's decision to beef up its news and public-affairs programs. Castro's Year of Power will examine the impact on Cuban life of the revolutionary regime. Color...