Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stores put up signs saying "Closed in respect to Dwight Eisenhower." Such restraint, as TIME'S Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark noted, "does not mean that they were not proud of him or that they did not admire him tremendously. They did, both as the famous home-town boy and as a reflection of their own down-to-earth values. When Ike died, they reacted in their...
...enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...metal that Smith was to find his calling and his towering achievement. He was a born craftsman. As a boy growing up in Decatur, III., he remembered, "I played on trains and around factories just like I played in hills and creeks. Machinery has never been an alien element; it's been in my nature." During his college years, he worked for a summer as a riveter and spot welder at Studebaker's South Bend plant. Looking through French art periodicals in his art-student days, he saw how Pablo Picasso, working with the Spanish metalworker Julio Gonz...
Died. Maximilian ("Max") Justice Hirsch, 88, famed horse trainer who sent out three Kentucky Derby winners in a career that stretched over 78 years; of a heart attack; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. There was never any other life for the Texan. He was an exercise boy at ten, a full-fledged jockey at 14, a trainer at 20. He handled more than 1,900 winners, among them Derby Champions Bold Venture (1936), Assault (1946), and Middleground (1950), but always refused to take sole credit. "Luck plays the most important role," he once said, "not the trainer...
...quintessential display in the anniversary issue: Gloria Steinem crusading for women's rights, 'Adam Smith' (actually George J. W. Goodman) contemplating conglomerates, Tom Wolfe on street fight etiquette, and Jimmy Breslin capturing the real Joe Namath. "Namath was shaking his head," wrote Breslin. " 'Boy, that was a real memory job. You know, I only was with that girl one night? We had a few drinks and we balled and I took her phone number and that's it. Only one night with the girl. And I come up with the right name. A real memory...