Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...donated to scrape up for the White House some antique wallpaper-still available new in France-for which salvage rights had cost only $50. "Some people like old broken things because they are old and broken down; maybe Mrs. Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser under the ire of the White House's youngest staffer: "Hours of painstaking care must be taken to remove antique paper...
Fullback Tom Haggerty, another strong running threat, averages 4.5 yards per crack with a total of 74 yards in 15 attempts. Haggerty received a minor injury in the Yale game, and was relieved by a "new" find, Al Butts, who scored the Lions' one TD against Yale. Donelli was so pleased with Butts' performance that he plans to bench O'Connor--averaging about six yards per carry(!)--so that Butts can start against Harvard...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy have made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn his job, recently admitted publicly that...
Each night the crack of gunfire along the frontier signaled another escape-or failure. Despite the odds, 50 new refugees made it to freedom every 24 hours. But it was getting tougher, for the Communists were building the barrier higher and broader. Hearing the news from home, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, visiting the U.S., grimly told a Manhattan audience that whatever else is negotiated, "that wall in Berlin must come down...