Word: joe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...award for My Name is Barbra, her first and only starring appearance on television, Funny Girl Barbra Streisand, 23, was puttering around with her pet poodle backstage at Broadway's Winter Garden, when who should drop by but the New York Jets' $400,000 bonus-baby Quarterback Joe Namath, 22, unfresh from what he hoped would be his one and only appearance for the U.S. Army. Waiting the word on whether his gimpy right leg had passed an Army draft physical, Joe clowned with his shades and the poodle. Barbra smiled her bonus-baby smile...
...Music Center, 1,500 members of the Retail Clerks Union sat in red-plush comfort beneath crystal chandeliers. Before getting down to the business of a union meeting, they heard a concert climaxed by a specialized composition called The Shopping Center Blues. They chuckled appreciatively when Local Leader Joe Silva explained that his hoarseness was caused by "executive flu " De Silva noted that a minority of the Music Center's board had protested that a union meeting was not the sort of "cultural" activity for which the $32.2 million center (including $25,000 contributed by the Retail Clerks...
...vast majority of major unions, the heir apparent to the incumbent is of the same generation. Examples: International Machinists' President Al Hayes, 65, was succeeded by Vice President Roy Siemiller, 60; the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' Gordon Freeman, 68, is likely to be followed by Joe Keenan, also 68; waiting in line behind the United Mine Workers' Tony Boyle, 60, is old John L.'s youngest brother, Ray Lewis...
...Lord," says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official in Washington, "I haven't heard Joe Hill sung at a meeting in 15 years-or anything else, for that matter." The typical local meeting is deadly dull and poorly attended. Members generally wear slacks and sport shirts, including bowling-and softball-league shirts for many who can hardly wait to get out of the hall and on to an avocation that is as often as not company-sponsored. (Another style note: for reasons that might require the services of a mass psychologist, the old white cotton sock has given way in Pittsburgh...
L.BJ.'s Concept. After Teddy, however, preservation went into an eclipse best expressed by the "not a cent for scenery" attitude of Uncle Joe Cannon, House Speaker from 1903 to 1911. Various nation al parks and monuments were dedicated and several Presidents took a lively interest in natural beauty, but it was not until President Kennedy took office that the Federal Government again began thinking about conservation on a scale approaching Teddy Roosevelt's. J.F.K. brought in outdoorsy Stewart Udall as Interior Secretary, in 1962 called the first White House Conference on conservation since the T.R. years...