Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since, Ford has got himself re-elected eight times, allied himself with House Republicans who were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the old-style party leadership. It was as a "constructive conservative" and strong Eisenhower supporter that in 1959 Ford helped engineer the removal of Massachusetts' venerable but ineffectual Joe Martin Jr., who had been G.O.P. leader for 20 years. The man who replaced Martin, ironically enough, was Charlie Halleck...
...Ambassador to the U.S., David Ormsby Gore, who became Lord Harlech on the death of his father last year, had nearly everything in his favor: a wealth of international experience, an easygoing charm, a beautiful wife, and a long intimacy with the Kennedy family dating back to Father Joe's own ambassadorial days in London. Able to pick up the phone and get instantly through to Kennedy, a relationship few ambassadors have ever enjoyed with any U.S. President, Lord Harlech kept Anglo-American cooperation on a smooth course...
...second and last act of Peterpat is a kill-and-make-up reconciliation scene. Under Joe Layton's fluid direction, it is a remarkably resourceful display of in-bed infighting. The sight gags are eruptively funny and the dialogue blends the flip quip with the rueful truth, as when Pat says to Peter apropos of his mistress: "Just think, if you had married her ten years ago, today you could be having an affair with...
...three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
...Namath $5,000 a year for life after his playing career ends-if it ever begins. Namath has a bad knee; he reinjured it practicing for the Orange Bowl, and it will take an operation to correct it. Werblin is springing for that too. And just to make sure Joe can transport all that money to the bank, Sonny threw in a Lincoln Continental. Reporters naturally inquired about the color. "Pink?" they asked. Uh, uh. "Jet green," said Namath smartly, and went charging on down to Mobile for the Senior Bowl game. He was slightly less than sensational-passing...