Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Complaint. The Air Force Constellation carrying Olmstead and McKone landed at Washington in weather that surely reminded the men of their Moscow winter. But once they walked down the steps from their plane, tossed a brisk salute to President Kennedy and located their wives, snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped...
...textile industry has a legitimate complaint when it comes to the price of cotton. Since cotton prices are supported by the U.S., domestic mills must pay 6? more a pound for U.S. cotton than buyers abroad pay for the same product. As a result, last year's imports of yarn leaped 14 times above 1959, increasing from 1,000,000 lbs. to 14,216,000 lbs. last year...
...learned to live with its continual sway and shake-for the tower was designed to give with the stress of wind and wave. The men also learned to put up with the constant, ear-banging racket of water slapping against resounding steel plate, the whine of generators, the mournful complaint of one of the largest and loudest foghorns in the world. But the food was good, and there was time for recreation. Men fished for cod, killed time in the tower's hobby shops, and played pool (although the roll of the deck turned the game into something unrecognizable...
...Days" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the complaint was that "when a Harvardman gets into the White House, he doesn't act like one." These days, when a Harvardman is about to get into the White House, all of Washington looks like Harvard...
...Worlds in Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their purchases at a champagne dinner in Manhattan, along with 125 paying guests. At $35 a head, the hosts figure on raising another...