Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter and expensive interservice rivalry, retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson last week ordered a capable three-man committee to merge the Army's experimental Jupiter and the Air Force's Thor into a single intermediate-range ( 1, 500-mile) ballistics missile. The multimillion-dollar marriage brokers: Major General John B. Medaris. boss of the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal; Major General Bernard A. Schriever, boss of the Air Force's ballistics-missile program; and Wilson's special assistant for guided missiles, William M. Holaday, onetime Socony Mobil Oil Co. Inc. research director. Wedding date...
Kohler, Wisconsin's three-term former governor, was the narrow victor last month in a bitter, seven-man G.O.P. primary (TIME, Aug. 12). Since then, factional wounds have been healing and Kohler has found allies among the defeated six. But he could establish no such rapport with Latecomer Boyle, an old hand at going after the frontrunner. Last year Boyle jumped into a G.O.P. primary between Senator Alexander Wiley and conservative ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler...
...pocket (with 888 votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia's onetime mentor, who went down to defeat with 69 votes, and bitter, professionally anti-American Claro Recto, Magsaysay's most implacable enemy, who won a humiliating 14 votes...
...stodgy, 33-year-old L'Unità sunk in the eyes of its own staffers that meetings intended to rally support for a "stronger, better" paper in Turin and Genoa last week broke up amid angry attacks on the party bosses by sacked employees. Said one bitter laid-off newsman: "We're all sick to death of being told what to write and what to think." So, apparently, were a lot of L'Unità's ex-readers...
...twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy of a trucking tycoon (Gene Lyons), who is the orphanage's most successful alumnus...