Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming; and in Porto, one fatherly gendarme captain even saw to it that a group of interned students kept up with their homework. But none of this could ease the bitterness of men and women who had been labeled "dangerous anti-Communists" and yanked away from their families without apparent rhyme or reason. One, shaken by the experience, died shortly after reaching Corsica...
TRYING to keep up with Pat Nixon last week, the Washington bureau's Burt Meyers reflected that the wife of the 36th Vice President was certainly the fastest-moving second lady. Doing his homework for this week's cover story, Correspondent Meyers discovered some interesting facts about Pat Nixon's predecessors...
Fellow with a Fuse. No other federal agency chief wields as much power as Quesada (or causes as much furor). Every morning he barges out of his rented town house on California Street in northwest Washington carrying the last night's bundle of homework, hops into the rear seat of a chauffeured, telephone-equipped Government Lincoln and heads down the avenue. In his cherry-plywood-paneled office, he pulls off his jacket and goes to work standing up. Pacing the floor, he rattles his points over the phone (President Eisenhower is "Sir," everybody else "Fellow"), dictates a blistering letter...
Sleep in Peace? Defense Secretary Thomas Gates, red-eyed and dead tired after days of testifying and nights of homework, even ran into a snag over Senate confirmation of his appointment. Gates had upset the Senate Armed Services Committee by testifying last fortnight that the U.S. had reduced its estimate of future Russian missile production by judging Russian "intentions" instead of "capabilities." One day last week Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson announced casually that Gates's nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from...
Hubert also inherited his father's vast hunger for learning. Always a quick study, he could memorize his homework with a reading, and his A record in high school was marred by only one B, in Latin. In high school, too, he was into everything: he played baseball, basketball, football, ran the half-mile, sang second tenor in the operetta, blew the baritone horn in the school band, played piano. He was a Life Scout, captain of the debating team (his coaching methods were successful enough to propel his kid sister into the state declamation championship), and, inevitably...