Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Means Committee asked what Medicare would cost. Secretary Flemming's guesstimate: $1.2 billion annually, split fifty-fifty by federal and state governments. What would it cost by 1970? Flemming shrugged, said his staff was still calculating. "This is the worst kind of fiscal irresponsibility," cried Virginia Democrat Burr Harrison. "This Townsend Plan-Rube Goldberg scheme is more socialistic and more unsound than the Forand bill." Quipped another Democrat: "This plan calls for everything except prenatal care for persons over 65." Chairman Wilbur Mills, an Arkansas Democrat who has long supported Ike's crusades for a balanced budget...
...wrote New York Timesman Harrison Salisbury last month in a two-part story on race tensions in Birmingham, Ala. As might be expected, Salisbury's molten prose brought an immediate outcry from Birmingham...
...roots (his Uncle John of Tupelo managed to serve eight terms in Congress during the Reconstruction, even though he was a loyal veteran of the Confederate army), landed in Washington in 1929 with a lot of debts and a warm and winning personality. Mississippi's late Senator Pat Harrison, a titan of the early New Deal, introduced him around, and soon Allen's sallies were the talk of the town. Before long the plump, genial young man was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt. Although F.D.R. was never a great admirer of Allen's broad humor...
...that sort of thing, and little of the kind of gamesmanship practiced in the 1920s by the great Walter Hagen, who used to deflate a field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb his swing and loft the ball to the green. His opponent, noting the club Harrison has used, will select the same one, blithely swing full-out?and send...
Manhattan cops showed no compassion for Irish-born Actor Edward Mulhare, Rex Harrison's successor as the tweedy Professor Higgins in long-running My Fair Lady. Thrice in the same day, twice in the same spot, traffic patrolmen hung $15 tickets on Mulhare's white Dodge convertible for illegal parking. Late that afternoon Mulhare made a fast getaway to Moscow along with Fair Lady's national company and 72 tons of scenery, props and luggage. Five chartered planes carried the troupe for an eight-week Russian tour. Fair Lady tickets were selling like cabbages at 60 rubles...