Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Johnson likes. His secret journey to Dallas not only precluded large gatherings along his route but even took local lawmen by surprise. Police Chief Charles Batchelor received only one hour's warning from the Secret Service. Johnson intends to announce none of his trips in advance, will honor speechmaking invitations only at the last moment...
Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman. As with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...
Actor Paul Newman was named "Man of the Year" by Hasty Pudding Theatricals yesterday afternoon. He receives this honor for his "outstanding achievement in the world of entertainment...
...Although one cannot yet be sure of Galbraith's role as a critic, he seems to have proved himself as a prophet: "A picture on the cover of TIME magazine, as any perceptive recipient of the honor must know, is taken by a large number of people to mean that the individual is henceforth much more in need of expert criticism than applause." (From his book The Liberal Hour...
...latest pot problem surfaced when a dozen of the smokers' fellow midshipmen became aware of the offense, decided to report to Annapolis authorities. They did so despite the fact that the school's honor code, unlike those at the Air Force Academy and West Point, does not require students to report rule breaking by others. Nonetheless, most of the middies take pot seriously. "Drugs." explains Midshipman Maurice McNeil, "affect a man's judgment-and judgment is the big thing with a man in service...