Word: downrightness
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...Easter holiday at Palm Beach. But then came word that a small steel company had announced a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). Kennedy postponed his leavetaking, called in Administration officials for consultation, finally came out with a statement that, compared to his savage 1962 assault on U.S. Steel, seemed downright benign-and gave the stock market a general lift. Then the President and a few friends jetted to Florida...
...other Kennedys), Cassini was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. His trial is set for next month. After the indictment, Charlene's father, who never cared much for the columnist, seemed downright hostile to the Cassinis...
...lighting by Ming (of Mongo, no doubt) had some imaginative touches. It is a pity that a little more attention was not paid to the cast, particularly the supporting actors and the toughs, for without it, the play was not poignant and affecting, as intended, but off-color and downright silly...
...Downright Spongy." At his press conference, John F. Kennedy showed unmistakably that he, too, is thinking ahead to 1964. He strode to the microphones with the springy belligerence of a middleweight boxer. A note of impatience ran through his answers to reporters' early questions, as if he could hardly wait for a subject really worth punching. Then a reporter asked him whether he cared to comment on a letter that Dwight Eisenhower recently sent to Indiana's House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. Eisenhower's letter urged "major surgery" on Kennedy's spending plans. The Administration...
Faintly Comic. But it isn't. Rather than offering escape, teen-feel songs invariably wallow in melancholy, trying to touch nerve ends with anything from the merely silly to the downright psychotic. The teen-age girl, as described by her taste in music, is above all a martyr-to broken dates, homework, high school-a St. Joan of the Jukebox yearning for weak heroes with weaker ideas. Dion, a pathetically undernourished singer with a pleading little voice, is among her favorites now. and his songs have titles like The Loneliest Man in the World and Unloved, Unwanted Me. Joan...