Word: hammerism
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...Bailey in the hammer throw and Rick DeLone in the shot put are towering figures in the field events. Art Dotenshould be right behind Bailey, and Sarge Nichols will back up DeLone. Marty Beckwith and Jack Spitzberg could give McCurdy two 6 ft., 4 in, high jumpers...
...tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As McCone claimed, he had all the credentials for the nuclear job: he was deputy chief of staff for Joint...
...only three weeks' bargaining? Sighed one top Administration economist: "Both sides wanted to assert their independence and get out from under Government pressure." Both steel labor and management apparently felt that the Administration's energetic tactics had saddled them, in the public eye, with the obligation to hammer out a noninflationary deal or take the consequences...
...good--about the same as that of an apprentice pneumatic hammer operator...
...Debating Hall by a jeering mob of 300 flourishing Ban-the-Bomb signs, Supermac followed a phalanx of rugby-hardened supporters to the back door only to find it bolted. Beating his way back to the front door again, Macmillan found that it, too, was locked, was obliged to hammer away on it for three minutes before unnerved officials inside the building accepted his repeated assurances: "It's the P.M. I am the P.M." But at evening's end, despite continuous heckling shouts of "What about Suez?" and "Who wrote this speech?", Macmillan was as unflappable as ever...