Word: crackerjacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payment of $234 million in veterans' insurance dividends to get more cash into circulation. There was a long lunch with Dean Acheson, followed by high praise for Acheson's outlook on foreign affairs, and there was a long private talk with a few reporters about what a crackerjack Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is. The President talked so convincingly of tight budgeting with visiting U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Edwin Neilan that Neilan, a registered Republican, emerged from the oval office to say that he might even vote for Johnson. "I don't always vote a straight ticket...
...stand for," but instead should unflinchingly "tell them what they ought to stand for." Says Tory Backbencher Nigel Birch: "His clarity and integrity shine out, and that's what you require in a leader. With his dignity and restraint, Home will show up Harold Wilson for a cheap crackerjack...
...moon, says Astronomer Cudaback, is probably covered by a thick porous layer that is as light and airy as finespun cotton candy. It is also possible, he says, that there is a foamy crust of crumbly, crackerjack-like material or a lunar honeycomb with cells intact and filled with gas. The moon got that way, he figures, because it has been bombarded with meteors for billions of years. Striking the moon's skin with enough energy to melt 100 times their own mass, the meteors liquefied rock or whatever else they hit, splashing gobs of molten material all over...
...thousands of Americans who made them possible. Few could take such personal satisfaction as a trimly handsome man who makes his contribution to U.S. defense from a paneled penthouse office overlooking Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Calif. As president of the Northrop Corp., Thomas Victor Jones, 41, heads the crackerjack industrial team that makes the Q-ball, the Datico, the Polaris star-tracker-and the bodies, brains, eyes and nervous systems of scores of other devices to carry men, or the alert instruments of men, off the earth. Many of its competitors are bigger than Northrop (which, with assets...
...Despite the family's connections in high finance, young Quesada had no dreams of becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...