Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen. Long before Los Angeles, reporters discovered that Kennedy's able and imaginative aides were ever ready to accommodate a soliciting newsman with inside stories, exclusives and audiences with the leader. Said Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "Most of the press covered the convention by camping on my doorstep...
...soon to be named Walter Baade, was born in 1893, the universe seemed relatively small and cozy, although full of unknowns. No one knew the size of the stars, what they were made of, or where they got their energy. No one dreamed that the stars are only the doorstep of the universe. When Baade got his doctorate at the University of Gottingen in 1919, most of the mysteries still remained; but in the U.S. new telescopes, bigger and more accurate than anything in Europe, were beginning to probe the sky with new farsightedness. After earning a reputation at Hamburg...
...Tonight!, in more than 250 cities. An added measure of Mark Twain's enduring success is financial. Although he nearly always had to scramble for money, had miserable luck as an investor (he sank thousands into a futureless typesetting machine, turned young Alexander Graham Bell away from his doorstep without a cent), the author's estate last week, as reported to a Connecticut probate judge, was worth a figure approaching half a million dollars. In 1959 Mark Twain earned $57,691-mainly for his daughter Clara, now Mrs. Jacques Samossoud of San Diego, Calif...
Since membership in highly skilled, highly paid (hourly wages: $4.10) Local 26 is virtually on a father-to-son basis, the old ways are easily preserved. Having such a union on his own doorstep is a source of never ending embarrassment to George Meany, who has labored long and well to eliminate segregation in unions. Last week he admitted that the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Civil Rights Committee was stymied by Local 26. To spread the blame for the shame, Democrat Meany then elected to discredit the President's Committee, through whose good works Vice President Nixon has been...
...secretary). Afterward, as the spent corps converged on the Royal Passy Café near Brigitte's home, where Papa Charrier was serving champagne, two newsmen collapsed from exhaustion and someone poured beer over their heads. With cruel disregard for the photographers who had camped on her doorstep so long, Brigitte waited two days and then handed out four pictures of herself and her son taken by an amateur...