Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three services. This happened partly by a process of elimination. Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, 57, is scheduled to retire next February. The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral David McDonald, 57, has been on the job only since last August, is still learning the ropes. That left "Bus" Wheeler for the top service job-which suited Defense Secretary Robert McNamara just fine. Wheeler is McNamara's kind of general-a skilled staff officer who specializes in analytical answers to complex problems...
...Remick, Montgomery Clift, and Kitty Carlisle with a man I didn't recognize, but I heard someone say it was Alan Jay Lerner. Carol Channing was there in a white stovepipe hat two feet high and an enormous pair of wrap-around sunglasses that would embarrass a Greyhound bus driver. I learned later that President Kennedy's sisters Pat and Jean were there, Anita Loos, Walter Wanger, Myrna Loy, Adolph Green, and Elizabeth Taylor's mother and father. Some of the other women there were really risque in those new gowns that show so much...
...Hood's Nefertiti. Glamour boat of the 1962 trials, the beamy Marblehead yacht got all the way to the finals before losing out to Weatherly, and many experts felt that Nefertiti was the better boat, credited Weatherly's victory mostly to the remarkable helmsmanship of Skipper Bus Mosbacher...
...ahead of them which is shown on small, individual screens. With a whoosh and voom, they're off, all 36 zinging up the same road in a contest to see who is the most economical and safest driver. They are graded electronically as they meet situations-a school bus discharging its tender cargo, an idiot driver warping and woofing all over the right...
...donated $5,000 apiece on the spot to keep Charlie going. One was Mrs. William J. Strawbridge Jr., 25; the other was her older sister, who is married to the Rev. Robert L. Pierson, a dedicated civil-rights advocate who was arrested in 1961 for participating in a bus station pray-in in Jackson, Miss. Both are daughters of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and their generous and spontaneous gesture won't do Candidate Rockefeller any harm with the Negro vote...