Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform that would state its aims in broad, general terms and leave the dangerous, controversial...
...Nixon camp's ho-?es that the platform carpentered by Chuck Percy would satisfy Nelson Rockefeller got a bruising jolt toward wask's end. ''The Governor," announced Rockefeller Press Secretary Robert L. McManus, "is deeply concerned that the drafts on a number of matters?including national defense, foreign policy and some critical domestic issues?are still seriously lacking in strength and specifics." Clearly implied was a floor fight that might scar the G.O.P. and furnish invaluable ammunition for the Democrats...
Ping Pong Percussion (Chuck Sagle and his Orchestra; Epic). Bandleader Sagle has a lot of fun with timbales. tamtams, glockenspiels, marimbas, etc., in a record clearly pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...
...from the Mound. Onetime Catcher Richards is particularly proud of five pitchers who are 22 or under-the finest group to come up in years. The two brightest rookie stars: Southpaw Steve Barber, 21, with a record of 4-1, an earned run average of 1.67; Chuck ("El Stiletto") Estrada, 22, with a 3-1 mark...
...Eisenhower's smug claim of last January that he knew more about defense than anybody else, it engendered some long-overdue rethinking of U.S. defense policies. For one thing, the Administration finally made up its mind to concentrate on an array of offensive missiles and bombers, and to chuck expensive defensive systems (TIME, April 18). And last week the prestigious House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, in a thoughtful audit, generally endorsed the Administration's "mixed-force concept" of missiles and bombers (and put to rest concern about a missile gap). Then it raised a question far more fundamental...