Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...
Around Vance swirls a galaxy of other potential successors. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, 40, a latter-day McNamara "whiz kid," headed Pentagon research and engineering during such McNamaran renovations as the MBT battle tank, the C5A air transport, and the Minuteman II ballistic missile. The current Deputy Secretary, Paul Nitze, 60, is a capable aide but perhaps too old. Johnson might also reach far afield for a successor, tapping such a respected private-sector servant as Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 54, board chairman of Litton Industries and one of the original World War II whiz kids...
Blue eyes icy with concentration, Columbus Fats lined up the shot that would take it all from the Cleveland Kid. Then he caromed the eight ball off one bank and back into the near side pocket. The Cleveland Kid shrugged. "A real pro," he mumbled. Not quite, but Ohio's Republican Governor James A. Rhodes, 58, was good enough to win at eight ball against Cleveland's Democratic Mayor Carl B. Stokes, 40, who had once been billiards champion of the University of Minnesota. The epic confrontation occurred during a meeting in Columbus, when Rhodes suggested that...
During one argument with Warner, Beatty prostrated himself before the old man, dug his nose in the rug, and moaned: "Look, Jack, please do what I say. I won't waste your money." Warner looked down and grunted: "Get up off the floor, kid, you're embarrassing me." Beatty...
...does not become politically active? The PBH volunteer through personal communication certainly does achieve positive results for the individual. Mark Petri '69, a member of the PBH executive board, said "The political ideal should take precedence over the social-philanthropic ideal -- while we are helping the individual kid, we're not changing the society in which he lives." He added, "I think PBH has a potential power base within the system which could be used effectively in political terms...