Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTERSERVICE RIVALRY: The President ordered that William M. Holaday, special Defense assistant for missiles, be given full authority to crack down on what Ike called "alleged interservice rivalries" that might hinder missile development. No more than Killian will Holaday be a missile czar. Rather, he will be a Pentagon straw boss for missiles, working for the President through Killian and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
From the first crack of the hammer by veteran Auctioneer Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener...
...century England, e.g., a weepy woman waiting in a cell to hang for stealing a yard of yarn; a bandaged old man who lost his ears for criticizing the Lord Chancellor; and the prince's whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep in a haystack. The prince identified himself as "the king" and, while a tiny kitten pawed at her long...
...trip to Tokyo should have been a relaxing diversion for crack Amateur Golfer Frank Pace Jr. President of the General Dynamics Corp. and onetime Secretary of the Army, Pace was simply a spectator, watching Japan's Torakichi Nakamura and Koichi Ono win the International Golf Association's Canada Cup (TIME, Nov. 4). But after viewing the wearing competition, Golfer Pace donned his other hat, spoke out as president of the I.G.A., and proposed in all seriousness that matches should be cut from 18 to twelve holes. After this revolution on the links, argued Pace, the player would...
...neighboring countries. West Germany will get French coal eventually--why not annex eastern France to Germany directly? Besides, coal is dirty, and nobody else seems to want it. England, on the other hand, has wanted western France for centuries; there is little reason why she shouldn't have a crack at it now. With a little American financing the British might not do too badly in administering the area...