Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, 55, thrice-wed knight of the British theater; and Joan Plowright, 33, ragdoll-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey): their second child, first daughter; in Hove, Sussex. Name: Tamsin Agnes Margaret...
Although the hawks were originally in the majority, according to the Post, opinions finally merged, and everybody joined Dean Rusk as a "dawk or a hove."* The group formed a "rolling consensus" built around McNamara's plan of "maintaining options" by blockading Cuba, leaving the door open for invasion or bombing if the blockade failed to get rid of the missiles. Who was the only person who did not roll with the consensus? Why, Adlai Stevenson, of course...
...Hove presumably rhymes with love. In a burlesque entitled "Last Drippings from the Great Certified Leak," the New York Times's senior columnist Arthur Krock, never wittier or more sardonic, suggests the word might first have been pronounced when McNamara predicted that a Soviet destroyer would "heave in sight." But ExComm's presiding officer, called "Himself," corrects him with "The word is hove." Otherwise, Krock turns ExComm into MadAv. "Let's melt this ball of wax and move the hardware from the shelf," suggests Krock's McNamara. "Suppose I start batting out the fungoes." Sorenson...
...Pointing a stubby finger at "bad counsel and bad judgment"-not to mention slow horses and fast divorces-compact Cinemactor Mickey Rooney, 41, hove into Los Angeles Federal Court under a luxury-model debt and filed for bankruptcy. Having earned some $12 million in a career that began when he portrayed a midget at the age of five, Rooney claimed assets of $500 in personal effects, debts of $464,914, including $116,512 in back taxes, $22,950 in back alimony to three of his four ex-wives. "From now on," pledged he, "I'm going to watch things...
Having already etched a redoubtable academic reputation for his monographs on marsupial embryology and anatomy, Australian-born Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, 76, closeted himself at the English Channel resort of Hove to finish off a book designed to "set the record straight" on a more complex mammal: his late son Errol. While insisting that "the Errol the public knew-the hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer-was a legend created by himself for publicity," the retired Belfast University professor (who recently celebrated his 54th wedding anniversary) conceded that his boy was not "perfect by any means. But neither was he wicked...