Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concrete Hall of Nations in Washington announced a coming event: SOCIAL MIXER- BEER, PEOPLE, DANCING. But what went on inside the hall one night last week was hardly a mixer. It was the televised debate between Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and critics of the Administration's firm Viet Nam policies, originally scheduled for May but postponed when the President ordered Bundy to the Dominican Republic...
...here," he said, "to make a choice between the quick and the dead. We must provide the mechanism to assure that atomic energy is used for peaceful purposes and preclude its use in war." Dramatically, he announced that the U.S. was willing to share its secrets in exchange for firm international controls over atomic resources and uses. The U.S., he said, "stands ready to proscribe and destroy this instrument-to lift its use from death to life-if the world will join in a pact to that end." But the Soviet Union refused to accept firm controls, and after...
...people have been talking unhappily about him, too, lampooning his literary mannerisms and planning branches of the Let's Punch Tom Wolfe in His Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous or such deadly sharpshooting...
Brothers on a Plank. Samsonite still bears the image of Biblicist Jesse Shwayder, who founded it in 1910 with $3,500. He brought his four brothers into the firm, introduced plywood-frame luggage and emphasized its strength with advertising that pictured the five Shwayder brothers standing on a plank supported only by a piece of their luggage. Shwayder retired in 1962, turned over control of the family-owned corporation to his son King David Shwayder and two able sons-in-law. Now 83, he still calls to offer them ideas...
Married. Pierre Salinger, 40, slimmer but still stout former U.S. Senator and presidential press secretary, now vice president of National General Corp., a movie-theater firm; and Nicole Gillman, 26, a pretty, French magazine reporter who met him eight months ago during his unsuccessful campaign for the Senate; he for the third time; in a Paris civil ceremony three days after being divorced by Nancy Brook Joy, 37, his wife of eight years...