Word: j
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...J. E. ANDERSON...
...informs the President that thieves have made off with $1 billion in gold bullion. And there's old L.B.J. listening to the bad news. Old who? Well, it's not quite the boss himself, folks. It's his cousin. To play the President, Central Casting tapped J. B. Peck, 66, retired sheriff of Garland, Texas, and L.B.J.'s somewhat look-alike first cousin. It's just a flash of his pan, and J.B. got a kick out of it all. But then, considering the relatively short-term market for his kind of role, he headed...
...north side, which is already being redeveloped by the Government and private entrepreneurs. To keep the setback, Owings has had to deploy his considerable powers of suasion. When he learned that the FBI intended to build a new headquarters right out to the old sidewalk line, he called on J. Edgar Hoover, urged him to redesign the projected structure. After listening to Owings' impassioned plea, Hoover nodded agreement...
Even the most tradition-bound companies are now loosening up on what their employees wear. Detroit's decorous J. L. Hudson Co. department store has begun allowing salesmen to wear sport coats instead of suits. Xerox insists on tonsorial tidiness, but it has permitted one of its California service technicians to affect a handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready...
HENRY VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick. 561 pages. University of California Press...