Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempo of glittering embassy dinners, chic Georgetown cocktail parties and white-tie soirees at the White House-but few of Congress's leaders are there. Instead, unpretentious, homebody lives are the preference of the Agnews, the McCormacks, the Dirksens, Senate President Pro Tern Richard Russell, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Majority Leader Carl Albert and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
...leaders' reasons for the simpler social life vary. Most cannot afford the time; unlike the ordinary Congressman, with his Tuesday-Thursday work week, congressional leaders put in long hours on the Hill and are grateful for a little solitude. Mike Mansfield is an example. "He leaves for the Senate at 6:30 every morning, and he stays till he puts the cat out," says his wife. "We don't have any kind of weekend or country place because we'd never have time...
...America's Apollo 11 heroes has doffed his space suit for the last time. Appearing on TV, Mike Collins agreed with Neil Armstrong that Mars is a possibility by 1981, then announced that he would make no more journeys into space. At 38, said Collins, he finds the rugged physical training too demanding, and he dislikes the long absences from his family. But, he added, he hoped to continue in the program in an administrative position of some sort...
...Angeles last week seemed all the more eloquent because they were unstudied, and because for once the usually phlegmatic voice of the first man on the moon quavered with emotion. His fellow astronauts were equally moved by the climax of their triumphant daylong sweep across the entire U.S. Mike Collins declared himself "proud to be an inhabitant of this most magnificent planet." Said Buzz Aldrin: "This is an honor to all Americans who believed, who persevered with us. We can do what we will and must and want...
...five or six times in the stomach. Then I hit him in the head, and when he came off the wall I hit him again. He was out before he hit the ground." Mike Hammer? Not quite. That was Manager Billy Martin talking about a fraternal misunderstanding among his Minnesota Twins, baseball's bad boys who have recently been trying to reform (TIME, Aug. 15). Martin, no stranger to donnybrooks during his playing days as a New York Yankee, explained it this way: the boys were sitting around a bar in Detroit hoisting a convivial glass when Dave Boswell...