Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strong real-estate pressure groups tried to get Bowron to reverse his stand on the housing contracts. No great public-housing enthusiast, Republican Bowron stubbornly refused, because he believed in the sanctity of contract. (He was subsequently upheld by the state supreme court.) "When I became mayor," Bowron said recently, "it was a measure of a mayor's worth to get federal money. So I got it, and what happens? I'm a socialist villain...
Cigar-chewing Curt LeMay, a sports-car enthusiast who does his own highway driving in a Cadillac-Allard, was on hand to watch a pet LeMay project. Airport racing, with admissions at $2 a head, swells the treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...
...Eliot is surprised that this slight Greek scholar should be a rabid sports enthusiast. In fact, no one in the House would be surprised at anything about Finley. He is a remarkable man, they agree, with sweeping interests, an unpredictable nature, and a character marked by both poetry and precision...
...Service Commission: Philip Young, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Business. A registered Republican, Young is the son of Industrialist Owen D. Young (onetime Democratic elder statesman who supported Eisenhower last year). Squarejawed, stubborn Dean Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed the nomination, added that he would...
Most of the audience seemed vague about what it all meant, but were won over by the massive orchestration, applauded for five minutes. A mountain-climbing enthusiast approved: "On the top of a mountain, you get exactly the same feeling. If he can get that over, he's terrific." Old Composer Vaughan Williams was vaguest of all about the performance: his hearing aid broke down early in the concert...