Word: caking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Topsy-Turvy Life. Supplies are lowered to Sealab in a small, pressurized capsule-an aquatic dumbwaiter that brings in such goodies as chocolate cake and fresh meat to supplement the aquanauts' stock of freeze-dried food. The men can watch commercial TV but prefer to peer out the portholes at the fish looking in at them. During the flight of Gemini 5, Aquanaut Carpenter even chatted directly with Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In case of emergency, the men could get power and fresh water from a tube linking them to shore, and they could surface in a 14-ft. capsule...
...almost too active to join a small, private birthday party at the L.B.J. Ranch. After sticking to his desk for an extra day because of the steel dispute, Johnson finally flew to Texas at week's end to feast on a 20-lb. birthday cake decorated at Lady Bird's request with small frosting-symbols of Johnson legislation passed by Congress (a hypodermic syringe for medicare, a schoolhouse for aid to education). His presents were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since...
...between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic programs. Russell's dismay even caused him to mix his metaphors. "If we are able to have both butter and guns," he pronounced, "we will have accomplished the feat of having our cake and eating it too, which no government has heretofore been able to achieve...
...death. As she recalls it, she was kneeling one day in 1952 before a statue of the Virgin Mary, when she saw the numerals 1960 form above a vision of the White House. Then a sinister cloud oozed out from the numbers, "dripped down like chocolate frosting on a cake," and spattered a ghostly, blue-eyed young man who had a shock of brown hair. Putting cake and cloud together, she told an interviewer from Parade magazine in 1956 that "a blue-eyed Democratic President elected in 1960 will be assassinated...
...show, but she failed to place this time in a "maiden equitation" event, left the family victories to Bobby Kennedy's daughters Kathleen and Mary Courtney, who trotted off with three blue ribbons. Later in the week, Jackie let John Jr. and Caroline host an ice-cream-and-cake party for the younger children of the clan as she celebrated her 36th birthday...