Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Texas' unpredictable political picture has swept a new name, a new face, and a new third party-all rolled into the form of a squat, barrel-chested, brass-voiced character named John Milton Addison. A man of infinite talents, Addison, 36, is the announced candidate for Governor under the party banner he created for that purpose: the "Clean 'Em Out Right Party." The label was designed to fit the Democratic "ins," but may apply also aptly to Addison himself. A federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week returned a 24-count indictment against Addison...
Cannonball is a brilliant improviser and he stitches his agile figures with a warmth of tone, a turbulence, and a gusto that is the envy of every other saxman in the business. In their most popular number-This Here, by Pianist Bobby Timmons-the quintet pours cool brass over the driving beat in long, looping lines that seem to glide through the roof and into the night...
...would not have been "the polite way to do it," so he made Symonds' point "in a softer vein." Declared Corcoran: "I was invited to be a nagger, and I was. I walked down the corridors of that commission as I have always ... in broad daylight, with a brass band behind...
Plane-Happy. Editor Sekigawa guessed more than most brass in Washington. Once the U-2 was test-flown, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) set up a pilot training unit ostensibly under control of Lockheed-but most of Lockheed's top officials made it a point to know very little about it. Everything was turned over to Vice President Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, who is in charge of Advanced Development Projects. The training unit recruited select U.S. pilots, and presumably they were drilled in the same rigorous survival training as Strategic Air Command pilots. Presumably they got long...
...Army brass hoped that Dwight Eisenhower would see his way to giving the Army more money to buy the new weapons. With most of the Defense Department's procurement money going into bombers, long-range missiles, air-defense systems and nuclear submarines over the past decade, U.S. infantry hardware has remained largely unchanged since the Korean war. Alone among major powers, the U.S. still equips troops with a World War II rifle, the M1; only lately have infantry units begun to get a trickle of new M-14 rifles with the standard NATO 7.62-mm. caliber. Last week...