Word: heeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hospital for Special Surgery. Doctors tried a delicate spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel of his left shoes and sneakers, and a small brace to support his back muscles...
...sticks to the telly and minds his football pools, until one day the Works Committee calls a wildcat strike that he considers senseless. Along with about a dozen other men, he refuses to take part in it. Factory toughs terrorize the holdouts, and all but the hero come to heel. "Don't do to step out of line these days," somebody mumbles resignedly. But persecution only gets the hero's back up, and in solitary dignity he stands on principle and refuses to join the strike...
...flabbergasted Erhard remarked stiffly: "I did not come here to talk to you but with our African friends." Smirnov turned on his heel and stalked up the aisle, where a German attendant, not realizing it was the Soviet ambassador, grabbed his arm and marched him out of the hall. The 60-odd Africans present remained silent. But Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had to warn angry Germans in the audience that Smirnov had diplomatic immunity...
...Last Word. Precise standards of measurement are a present-day perplexity. On a laboratory wall in the U.S. Bureau of Standards hangs a blow-up of a 16th century woodcut showing 16 men lined up heel to toe to define the rute, an old German measure of length related to the English rod. That was fine for the 1500s. But since then, each advance in technology has required better measurements. The standard meter bar, adopted by 28 nations, including the U.S.. in 1875, was considered the last word. Used with elaborate comparing devices, it could measure with an accuracy...
...What Makes Sammy Run (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A welcome reprise: the second half of Budd Schulberg's dramatized novel, with Larry Blyden as Sammy Glick, the slum boy who becomes Hollywood's archetypical heel...