Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capitol Hill experience to ram much of F.D.R.'s program through Congress in the famous "first 100 days." Just as fellow Texans Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would do later, Garner operated behind the scenes. Through the first two F.D.R. terms he stayed hitched to Roosevelt, whom he called "Cap'n." A lifelong foe of Eastern banking interests, he had been a major force in forging a graduated income tax, guaranteeing bank deposits, and baiting big business. Garner worked loyally for Roosevelt's bill to pack the Supreme Court, but considered it a tactical error; when it failed...
Dickeys ultimate seriousness comes through in conversation even to those who have doubts about his ideals and style. He is an easy man to like, even for academics. He has important things on his mind. To put a cap on a conversation, he said, "One part of me is a very scholarly person--I like to read long monographs on Keats's prosody--but the other part is someone who has never seen a poem before. When I really want to enter the deep part of writing, it's as though I had never read anything before. I want...
...things going by demurely introducing her aunt. So much for Katharine Houghton. Her aunt turned out to be Katharine Hepburn, 60. And for the rest of the interview, young Katharine sat awed as auntie discoursed on Novocain-free dentistry ("A little pain builds your character"), her campaign cap ("I was in the Confederate army"), and the acting simplicity of her late, longtime co-star Spencer Tracy ("a baked potato"). Not quite forgetting the purpose of the conference, Hepburn did offer a few professional words about her remarkably look-alike niece, who makes her movie debut in the last movie Hepburn...
Yale didn't get on the scoreboard until the last two minutes of the first half, when Calvin Hill swept four yards around end to cap a 68 yard drive. Neither Hill nor Dowling ran as effectively though, as burly fullback Don Barrows who gained 141 yards in 26 carries...
General Matt Ridgway, that once familiar figure with the fur cap and the hand grenades dangling from his field jacket, was the man who took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...