Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reading Dynamics develops as Mrs. Wood and her partisans contend, someday soon Bob Richards will appear on the television screen grinning healthfully and advising earnest young Americans to buy "Wheaties, Breakfast of Speed Readers"; and parents will be consoling their disgruntled children with "Don't worry son, you can't speed read...
...time covered in the book's 710 pages stretches from 8:45 a.m. Nov. 20, when a vibrant, if slightly testy, John Kennedy presided over a White House breakfast for congressional leaders, to midnight Nov. 25, when Jackie prayed and placed a bouquet of lilies of the valley beside the eternal flame at the dead President's grave...
...psychiatrist asked 30 assembled mothers whether they would give birth-control pills to their teen-age daughters. Only a few said no. Most were undecided. One-third said yes, definitely-and one mother announced that she was already slipping the pill into her daughter's breakfast milk...
...manned missions precisely as planned and McDonnell collected a $25 million bonus. "McDonnell's engineers always seemed to be on top of the problem," says NASA Flight Director Chris Kraft. As often as not, Mr. Mac himself would turn up at Cape Kennedy for a 3 a.m. breakfast with departing astronaut crews. To help him recall who was who, he invariably carried a small black notebook crammed with the names of wives, children?and even their dogs. "Mr. Mac is an anachronism," says NASA's Paul Haney. "There's a measured cadence in working with him that's refreshing?...
Cheaper than Sprouts. Work for McDonnell begins right after 7:30 a.m. calisthenics when, over breakfast in his distinctly unpretentious colonial house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...