Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MALCOLM H. BELL...
After Chicago broke out in a summer rash of racial violence last month (TIME, July 28), Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams, voicing the views of many segregationists, piously asked why Attorney General Robert Kennedy had not sent U.S. marshals to Chicago, just as he had to Alabama when the Freedom Riders first headed south...
...favorite speechwriter, Presidential Assistant Ted Sorensen, produced four drafts, each including a number of alternative demands that Kennedy eventually put aside. Until the day before he spoke, the President had planned to ask for a tax hike, rather than let the budget deficit rise higher. But Budget Director David Bell, Economic Adviser Walter Heller and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that the economy was strong enough to stand the added debt, and that new taxes might well slow the recovery from last winter's recession. Kennedy finally decided to ask only for measures that would end the Post Office...
...Tennessee State's Track Coach Willie Stevens, Boston plunged last year into a 90-minute-daily practice ritual that included high jumping (to strengthen his legs) and hurdling (to keep his body muscles limber). He patterned his jumping style after that of 1956 Olympic Champion Greg Bell. "The technique I use," says Boston, "is called 'walking in the air.' It is just like running in the air. I take three and a half steps in the air before I land." He practiced stretching his arms high above his head to force his body up, learned to keep...
Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...