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...handed President Kennedy his first major legislative defeat. That done. Charlie Halleck's Republicans and the hard-shell Democrats figured it would be easier to rally future opposition to such equally contentious Kennedy proposals as the education bill and medical aid to the aged. John Kennedy's honeymoon with the 87th Congress had been short and something less than sweet...
...nice young boy and girl immobilized with modesty as they try to make love for the first time. "Tomorrow morning, maybe?" she asks shyly at the fade. "It's a shame to waste the room." Marriage (written and directed by René Clair) is a pert disquisition on honeymoon hysterics...
...Honeymoon. The honeymoon lasted for nine years as Pan Am and Panagra flourished. But in 1938, the Grace interests tried to extend Panagra's routes to the U.S. The Pan Am-controlled directors on Panagra's board blocked the move on the ground that Panagra was part of the Pan Am system and that extension would make it a competitive carrier. Determined to keep Panagra a dead-end airline, Pan Am two years later ordered its directors to boycott Panagra board meetings at which extension was scheduled to be discussed...
...Honeymoon's End. In this sudden burst of both hindsight and foresight, there was increasing evidence that the press's romance with Jack Kennedy, which began so handsomely during the campaign and waxed so warm after his November triumph, might not long survive the traditional postInaugural honeymoon. But that, too, was to be expected. Since George Washington's time, when the nation's first President complained, "The Government and the Officers of it are the constant theme for Newspaper abuse," the U.S. press has practiced with uninterrupted vigor its historical prerogative to find fault with Presidents...
...married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...