Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary Neil McElroy is aware that his honeymoon with Congress and the armed services may soon be over. The problem: space. McElroy is determined that his long-discussed Advanced Research Projects Agency(ARPA) will handle development of future space projects. The services-which have their own designs on space-are complaining bitterly and effectively that ARPA will be a costly duplication, a fourth service. Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian is arguing for a plan to turn the ARPA mission over to the independent, efficient National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, headed by Lieut. General Jimmy Doo-little-a plan...
Shoestrings & Briefcases. No one knows better than blue-eyed, towering (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) Neil McElroy that he is still on his Defense Department honeymoon, that in part he looks good because the U.S. so badly wants him to look good, and that his fast start is worthless unless it is the first stage of successful long-term performance. But there are qualities in McElroy that make him a good bet-and Neil McElroy, himself a gambling man, would be the first to put his wager on his chances...
...hard sell" is therefore thought necessary, and in the fierce competition loyalty to one's sponsor is more vital than talent. Ed Sullivan is rarely photographed far from a Lincoln automobile, and Eddie Fisher spent the second day of his honeymoon campaigning for CocaCola...
...first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old." Said a gallery manager: "It's like opening up the pages of an issue of Studio from the Edwardian era." The occasion was the first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists of the U.S.S.R., the consensus was: considerable competence, little fire. "There is no hint here," said the Times, "of a Bakst, a Chagall, or a Kandinsky...
...night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found her in a dingy pensione, seriously ill after a sleeping-pill suicide attempt. He took her to Rome for treatment, and she fled again, led him a chase to Lausanne, Paris, London, then back to Rome. In July 1954 Pati...