Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inauguration in 1789. There was to be a sort of floating celebration, with swinging parties in all five boroughs and a glittering inaugural ball in Manhattan. Mike Quill's strike fixed all that-everything was canceled except the ball-but it could not subdue the high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor and his wife Mary acted as if they had not a care in the world, danced across the bandstand to the tune...
...program, more than 1,000 experts with the U.S. Operations Mission are distributing more than $500 million a year in economic assistance, training civil servants in a dozen Saigon ministries and advising local officials. USOM in the past five years has helped build 4,682 classrooms, drill 1,900 fresh-water wells, set up 12,000 village health clinics and establish 718 factories. In 1965 alone, it bought 7,000,000 textbooks, and later this month will inaugurate a television network designed to reach-and help unify-close to half of the country's 15 million people...
...entire student bodies of Radcliffe College, Lesley College, and the Longy School of Music assault the Yard and herd all freshmen into waiting trucks with all their belongings except their pants. The girls put on the pants. New York Mayor John V. Lindsay uncovers an eternal spring of fresh water by striking his rod against the Empire State Building. Ronald Reagan engages California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in a series of debates. Reagan, clasping his shawl tight to his shoulders, persists in calling Brown "Senator Douglas" and talking about his boyhood in Illinois...
...almost 90, told the weekly Christ und Welt that he will retire again-this time as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union, a post which he had continued to occupy after Erhard took over as Chancellor because Economist Erhard has little interest in party politics. "No matter how fresh one can feel at 90," said der Alte, "one must take into account that today or tomorrow, everything can suddenly stop. Everything has an end." Or almost. Der Alte will still occupy his seat in the Bundestag and doubtless continue to snipe at Erhard and his policies whenever the chance arises...
Cassius Clay? Not this time. California's Governor Pat Brown, 60, was sicking his doggerel on New York's Nelson Rockefeller, 57, betting him "one box of assorted fresh California fruit" that the San Diego Chargers would whip the Bills for the American Football League championship. Nelson, stout feller, staked a crate of New York State apples on it, and after some musing wrote Brown...