Word: damn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...participating nations jockeyed for bigger shares of the fat engineering contracts. But the scientists, including Communist Yugoslavs, worked in amity. At CERN there were no weapons projects and no problems of national security. "Any scientist can work here, help himself to our blueprints, take pictures of any damn thing around here," says MacCabe. "Nothing is secret...
...hole for a mouth that looked from a distance like a gush of black blood. But Jacques Plante, 30, the brooding, acrobatic French Canadian who is hockey's finest goalie, was oblivious to the shocked cries from the stands. Said he: "I don't give a damn how it looks...
...Pattern Repeated. Within 48 hours after he quit ABC, Kintner had an offer to join NBC as executive vice president in charge of color coordination ("I didn't know a damn thing about color"), took charge of TV operations in February 1958. That July he was named president, with a ten-year sliding-scale contract that pays him upwards of $150,000 yearly. Kintner frankly admits that he applied his ABC formula: canned series, westerns, private eyes-plus quizzes. He knifed Wide Wide World, Omnibus, live dramatic shows (including Kraft Theater). Says he: "I had to catch up with...
...tangled with his old Wall Street friend, Navy Secretary James Forrestal. When Forrestal became the first Defense Secretary and Symington's boss, Symington fought him again to try to get more Air Force funds-fought with a tenacity that Forrestal's friends will never forgive. "That damn guy never lets up," Forrestal complained to White House Counsel Clark Clifford. "He is absolutely relentless...
...quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...