Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public Detail. When Ike had his ileitis attack in June 1956, there were not many Americans who could boast that they had an inflammation of the lower intestinal tract in the family. It was potentially dangerous in view of the President's heart condition. Yet, curiously enough, Ike seems not to have been unduly disturbed by the attack or his operation. In the second, concluding volume of his presidential memoirs (The White House Years, 1956-61: Waging Peace), out this week, he devotes only one paragraph to that illness, recalls: "Strangely enough, although I was truly miserable for several...
...crazy tradition for assemblage and the object." And, as such, they set the keynote for the freshest of West Coast art, which is the newest rage on the U.S. gallery scene (see color pages). Less than five years ago, the closest thing to an art movement that California could boast was a group of San Francisco-centered figurative painters, such as Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, who softly focused abstract expressionism on the human figure. Now, whether one considers it a good thing or bad, the West Coast is truly vying with New York insofar as a freshness...
Never on Holidays. By contrast, their World Series opponents, the American League's Minnesota Twins, boast only one pitcher who has even won 20 games, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant-and his earned-run average is a so-so 3.22. The Twins do have plenty of power: Harmon Killebrew has hit 24 homers, Bob Allison has 23, and Tony Oliva, the American League batting champion (at .321) has 16. What's more, because of a quirk in the schedule, the Twins won't have to face Sandy Koufax in the opening game of the Series...
...when a fortnight ago a sign went up on the toughest part of Route 19; WELCOME FIRST AIR CAV, it said; PASS SECURED COURTESY A CO 2ND BN ABN 502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...
Atlantans boast that their city is the most progressive and peaceful in all of the Deep South. In his four years as mayor, silver-haired Ivan Allen Jr. has given them plenty to boast about. No fewer than six of the seven civic programs for which Allen campaigned in 1961 have been successfully completed...