Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running for public office-most any public office. He may try next year for Congressman-at-large from Massachusetts, or he may go for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by his big brother Jack. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, wants him to run for the Senate ("Old Joe," says a family friend, "considers that Senate seat the family's"). But President John Kennedy is not so certain that Ted is ready for the Senate-and Ted will almost certainly abide by the President's advice...
Fear & Firmness. Fact is that press criticism of the President has never been a sometime thing. It is one of the persistent realities of life in the loftiest and most vulnerable public office. In recent weeks, others besides Joe Alsop have indeed accused the President of wavering, indecision, and of failing to deliver on the glittering promise of strong leadership that surrounded the figure of Jack Kennedy early in office...
Sprinting along the fringes of space, 21 miles above the earth, NASA Test Pilot Joe Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard familiarly known as "the Q-ball" gauged the basic critical factors-direction, sideslip, friction-and told Joe Walker that he could safely press for the record. Said Walker, with affection: "The Q-ball is a go-no-go item. Only if she checks...
Apart from the usual cry about electing Joe Smith for good (or better) government, an absence of real issues has characterized the present campaigns for the Cambridge City Council and School Committee...
...that sets its sights along "the hippopotamus of a right triangle.'' And Car 54, Where Are You? is a question that does not deserve an answer. An NBC show written by Nat Hiken (who wrote Sergeant Bilko), it lionizes two New York cops named Toody and Muldoon (Joe E. Ross and Fred Gwynne) and reaches its pinnacles with such dialogue as "Where's Toody?" "Toody's on doody...