Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd, recalling the Nixon visit last summer to the Soviet Union. Then a Japanese skier crowded in, said he was from "the Northern Islands." "I've been there." said Dick Nixon. Between autographs and greetings, Pat gratefully gulped down most of a chocolate milkshake in a paper cup which a friend handed her. A group of Australian hockey players squeezed in. "We'll be watching you in the next few days," promised Pat. The trainer of the Russian skating team swiveled into position before the Nixons, fastened a silver tie clip to the Vice President's collar...
...tried to reach him by phone. "They're not bad people as net work executives go," said Paar, but he would not talk to them, hoped to leave on a long vacation. Then he told another story - this time about a poor man who owned only one cup and broke even that one day. As it shattered, he said: "At last I am free." And that, added Paar portentously, "is how I feel...
...promptly suggested that it might repair the cup. A conciliatory letter from President Kintner reminded Paar of the other people on his show who were affected by his walkout. "I hope you will think of all of them, Jack, and decide to come back to us." At the same time, NBC was insisting that it would hold Paar to his fiveyear, $200,000-a-year contract...
...emerged from La Scala's ballet school. The daily Avanti found that Carla "has now fully arrived as a prima ballerina," and one critic noting that she is related to Verdi, observed: "No wonder she's so good; she drinks her morning espresso out of a cup that once was Verdi's." Few present would dispute the recent judgment of the London Daily Mail: "She will be one of the greatest ballerinas of our time...
...great-granddaughter lived to present a silver gilt cup, once the property of poor mad George, to her great-grandchild-Prince Charles, present heir to the throne of England. She thus placed herself dead center in that huge tract of time between Saratoga and V-E day. Born Victoria Mary of Teck in 1867, she was called "May" by her family, and she is known to recent memory as Queen Mary, wife of George V, her second cousin once removed. With her pastel parasols, tailored suits and hats designed by some puckish confectioner, she was an anachronistic though never absurd...