Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steelhead trout fishing trip [Jan. 1], I arose at 5 a.m., drove 2½ hours over snow-covered roads, experienced a near-fatal skid, stood from dawn to dusk in icy, chest-high water, and was buffeted by 50-knot gales. After being forced to drive the last 32 miles of the return trip home at 15 m.p.h. because of ice and slush, I at last staggered into the house at 8 p.m. proudly holding aloft the object of my efforts-a nine-pound "buck" steelhead! What do you mean, steelhead fishermen are "screwy people...
...Little Orphan Annie's Sandy is going to get a beastly shock when he finds out he's been upstaged by that flop-eared beagle Snoopy [Jan. 1]. It's about as far upstage as you can get, actually...
...fighting mood. Said he: "The history of our state, as we all know, is replete with instances in which the second half of an administration becomes a poaching ground for unscrupulous politicians.This is not going to happen this time. This administration will become a lameduck administration at high noon Jan. 17, 1967, and not ten seconds earlier...
Texas Democrat John Connolly had his own second-term inauguration moved from Jan. 19 to Jan. 26 so that he would not miss the inauguration of his friend Lyndon Johnson. But when Connally returns from Washington, he faces demanding tasks in pushing through his $68 million college-aid recommendation and in smoothing the way for a hard-to-swallow reapportionment plan that would force dozens of angry rural representatives and senators to give up their seats to the cities...
...Royal Canadian Mint had never seen anything like this. On Jan. 2, post-office trucks rolled up to Ottawa's turreted mint building with 125 bags containing nearly 2,000,000 pleading letters. Within a week the mail reached 6,000,000 letters. And who was doing most of the writing? U.S. coin collectors...