Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inside Joke. Yet Bennett, senior Republican on the Standards and Conduct Committee, which investigated Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted...
...Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally...
Lady Bird Johnson, who stood by in the hospital during her daughter's six hours' labor and delivery, immediately telephoned the news to her husband at the White House and was joshed about "being a grandma." Hearing about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson wired Luci: "I am happy for you and Patrick Sr., and Patrick Lyndon. Our best Hereford heifer is being curried for delivery, consigned to your 9-lb. son, who incidentally I know doesn't look like a donkey, and I hope that his father will quit publicizing...
...caustic old joke is fast losing its bite. True, top amateur tennis players still make a comfortable living-up to $1,000 per tournament in "expense money"-but few any longer refuse to turn pro on the grounds that "I can't afford to." Long a disorganized gypsy sport, pro tennis finally has gone big time. In 1964, the "pro tour" consisted of only eight tournaments worth a total of $80,000 in prize money; this year the pros will play 42 tournaments in the U.S. and abroad, and $600,000 is up for grabs. If he plays...
...Lichtenstein's celebrated "comic strip" canvases of 1962. "My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work." Pure boasting? At the time, yes. Lichtenstein's first pop paintings were derided as belonging to the "King Features school," and a bad joke. Today, it's all the way to the bank. At 43, Lichtenstein is a pop hero: half a dozen museums own his work, his every show is a sellout, and his prices have jumped tenfold, to $12,000 for a large canvas...