Word: leads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Summer but Western. Nixon was very much the impresario. He gestured like a would-be conductor to The Stars and Stripes Forever, escorted Armstrong and then Collins around the floor between courses, stood to lead applause for the band during The Marines' Hymn, beamed paternally as he awarded the astronauts the Medal of Freedom.* Delightedly he announced that it was "the highest privilege I could have" to offer a concluding toast to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. The President seemed relaxed and already refreshed from his first few days of vacation in nearby San Clemente at his new Western White...
...threat to that small Southeast Asian country. At week's end the exact contents of the pact remained a mystery. It was learned, however, that the U.S. could be committed to send troops into Thailand under certain circumstances. This news caused Church to ask if the pact could lead to another Viet...
...mothers of school-age children to accept employment or job training rather than staying at home with their youngsters. The requirement that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal...
...Precisely because the Tate murders were so brutishly irrational, Hollywood was seized by fear. Celebrities, including Frank Sinatra and Alan Jay Lerner, hired guards for their families, and several guests at Sharon's funeral packed guns. At week's end, police were still without a firm lead. The most likely theory was that the slayings were related to narcotics. Meanwhile, the police released Garretson, their only suspect, for lack of evidence, and were guarding a Polish emigre who claimed to know the identity of the killer or killers...
After checking out the previous days races on video tape in the confines of the jockey's room--"and Misty Run now getting too the lead,"--they visited old friends in white spats and sharkskin suits. The Wellesley Kid bought a round of drinks. A. G. Vanderbilt and wife were there for light conversation. A very live spirit from the past--when Arnold Rothstein won $850,000 on Sidereal, when Pittsburg Phil was in his heyday, when Diamond Jim Brady and Subway Sam Rosoff ate much and bet more, when a "handy guy like Sande was bootin' them babies...