Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Team Batter. In Appleton, Wis., sentenced to two years' probation for beating his wife, William Van Linn told the court: "My wife wouldn't bake me a cake, and bakery cakes aren't as good as homemade ones...
...President was willing to receive him. Shortly before Vice President Nixon left for Moscow, the President told Nixon that Khrushchev-visit negotiations were under way. Nixon's own talks with Khrushchev confirmed his own belief that a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. might do some good. With the Geneva conference fizzling to an end, the President and Secretary Herter decided to get the visits announced while the conference was still on, so as to avoid any appearance that the exchange was hastily improvised after the conference failed...
...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
Through the shot and shell of 2½ years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members...
...Good Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over his face, 2) the plane's canopy blew off, 3) an explosive charge sent seat and pilot into the thin, -65° air, and 4) in the air a cable from the plane yanked the metal seat off his rump, left Marine Rankin above 40,000 feet with...