Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Austrian Maestro Herbert von Karajan, 55, has long been an a.m. book worm, and now he has caught an early bird. While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
Segregationist attempts to crack the solid North will not rest solely on Wallace's shoulders, however. In Princeton, the Whig-Cliosophic Society announced that Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett has accepted an invitation to speak Oct. 1. President Robert F. Goheen called the invitation "untimely and ill considered" and said it did not imply endorsement by the university of Barnett's views and actions...
Jerry Mechling, a kicking specialist last year, suddenly emerged as a man of many talents. One of the problems now is to decide whether to keep him on defense--where he was outstanding--or let him have a real crack at offensive quarterback, where he operated with poise, good sense, and effectiveness...
...history of his time." And across the border, an unusual kudos went to Patton's onetime enemy on the beaches of Normandy, West German General Hans Speidel, 65, recently retired commander of NATO's central European land forces; he was made the first honorary member of the crack U.S. Seventh Army...
...lost a rich account. But many on Madison Avenue were reconsidering. Said President Rudolph Montgelas of the Ted Bates agency, the nation's fifth largest: "If Foote, Cone is a great success, two or three other agencies may go public next year. But an agency without a crack record of stability and earnings should...