Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with his finger resting against the panic button and doesn't quite know how to draw it away." And both here and abroad, the cartoonists stung him with their sharpest barbs (see cuts...
Voice: Your impact will be right on the button...
...after a couple of delays, the 88-ft. Mercury-Atlas rocket belched off its launching pad. Forty seconds later, the range safety officer pressed the button that destroyed the rocket, which had deviated badly from its course. In a month of U.S. flops, this was the pffft seen around the nation-and even if, as scheduled, the U.S. sent a man on a long, downrange missile ride this week, the feat would still seem puny in comparison with the achievement of the Soviet Union's Major "Gaga" Gagarin...
...blamed, this year the profit squeeze and the "campaign of vilification" against management. "Who are you trying to fool, Mr. Colbert?" asked Horvath. "You've got your head in the sand and your flanks exposed to attack. You do all your planning with one hand on the panic button and the other in the till." Countered Colbert: "Chrysler has no problem that increased sales wouldn't cure...
Thurs., April 27 Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Former World Champion Dick Button leads U.S. and Canadian skating stars in a tribute to 18 U.S. skaters who died in the Feb. 15 Brussels air crash...