Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such problems, a furious remodeling program has added manicured new gardens to the academy, as well as indoor plumbing for the six guest bungalows and electric light for all the buildings. An airstrip is being built nearby for the Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which...
Also contributing to the drop was the Lampoon's failure to match last year's gift...
...Gift Horse. Still, the then Vice President apparently had time to scratch for a piece of the limelight by coming through Mrs. Lincoln's White House office nearly every day, then on to the reception room, where newsmen could see him and assume he had just emerged from consultations with Kennedy. "Does he use this door very often? What is he doing in these offices?" she quotes J.F.K. Johnson, she says, asked her: "Be a good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting...
...Lincoln suggests that Johnson's 1961 gift of a horse to Caroline Kennedy, then three, was not unmitigated generosity. He immediately asked for -and was granted-a ceremonial photograph with the Kennedy family. Shortly after, he came through Mrs. Lincoln's office again and spied the child drawing pictures by her desk. As she tells it, L.B.J.'s face lit up, and he said: "Do you know who I am, Caroline?" The little girl stood mute. "I'm your Uncle Lyndon. I want you to call me 'Uncle Lyndon' whenever you see me." When...
...Great came to power in 1762, she began a massive rebuilding program. To find enough officers to command her new ships, Catherine collected foreign naval men almost as fast as she collected lovers. Among them was the American Revolutionary War hero, John Paul Jones, who, despite his bravery and gift for quick phrasemaking, had risen no higher than captain in the U.S. Navy. In return for an admiral's rank, Jones took command of a Russian sailing fleet composed of four battleships, eight frigates and assorted smaller craft that helped chase the Turks from the Black Sea. Unfortunately, his morals...