Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end President Kennedy flew back to Hyannisport. On the sun-drenched Kennedy patio and aboard the presidential cruiser Marlin, he conferred with Secretaries Rusk and McNamara and his brand-new military adviser. Maxwell Taylor (see following story). Berlin and Germany occupied their thoughts as they would for some time to come. Khrushchev was busy, too. Over the weekend he called for a summit conference to sign a German peace treaty, and announced 30% increase in Russia's defense spending this year...
...Goldwater brand of politics proved surprisingly popular, especially back home. Running for re-election in 1958 against Democrat McFarland, Goldwater breezed in by a comfortable 35,000 votes and, in a generally disastrous Republican year, returned to Washington as the fair-haired boy of U.S. conservatism. Inevitably, a boomlet began for a Goldwater place on the 1960 Republican national ticket-and Barry did little to stunt its growth. "If I were offered the vice-presidential spot on the ticket," he told newsmen at a 1959 press conference in Columbus, Ohio, "I'd have to have marijuana in my veins...
...there was any man at Oakland Hills with the brand of golf needed to take the Monster's measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...
Next fortnight he plans to take off for 13 weeks in the States on another money-raising roundup. This time the bishop hopes to be traveling on a brand-new passport-a Brazilian one. After long pondering the matter, he applied for Brazilian citizenship. "After 17 years of beans, rice, and transfusions by Amazon mosquitoes, I am a Brazilian," he says. "The most important part of my past life was spent on the Amazon, and if I'm lucky the rest of it will be spent here, too. It may sound corny, but these are my people...
...Jews-for-trucks deal was rejected by Zionists as well as the Allies on the well-founded conviction that the Nazis could not be trusted: "Events soon hardened their suspicions. The extermination of Hungarian Jews was not halted for the two weeks that had been explicitly promised to Mr. Brand...