Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uninaugural Ball." With commendable skill, the President danced with Lady Bird, changed mid-dance to pick up with Muriel Humphrey, the wives of Maryland's Senator Daniel Brewster, Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Clark, Commerce Secretary John Conner, Louisiana's Congressman Hale Boggs, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Postmaster General John Gronowski and Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag. He delighted the crowd when he helped hoist Margaret Truman Daniel over the rail at her box and took her for a brief spin on the floor...
...height of Joe McCarthy's power, Fulbright was one of the first Senators to protest his tactics. In 1954, he cast the lone vote against an appropriation for McCarthy's investigating Committee, blistered him in a speech at the University of Minnesota: "Thoughtful and informed people know that demagogues, who debauch the institutions of representative government, help Moscow." McCarthy thereafter referred to Fulbright as "Senator Halfbright...
...himself in his Kremlin study the day the Nazis invaded Russia and didn't bother to come out until four days later, by which time Hitler's hordes had the Red Army reeling all along the Russian front. But someone high in the Kremlin must recall old Joe with respect. Stalin's birthday (Dec. 21) is observed in the same Soviet calendar that has made Nikita an unperson...
...Frank Nitti ran the action and anything went: switching dogs, doping them, filling them full of water to slow them down, sticking thorns in their feet. Some of the old flamboyance still persists in Britain, where the whole country was buzzing last week over the dognapping of Hi Joe, the favorite for next June's Greyhound Derby. But in the U.S. these days, dog racing is almost respectable-and booming as never before...
...Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...