Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starring role in last week's drama at the O'Hare Inn was written a week before the Illinois delegation actually met. To add to the irony, that meeting-which turned out so badly for Bill Scranton-was originally set up by Scranton himself. From the moment he became an avowed candidate on June 12, he knew he would have to make some spectacular inroads into what had been counted as a big Goldwater delegation. Illinois seemed to be the most likely possibility...
Bobby was mobbed by enthusiastic Poles from the moment he landed at Warsaw airport. Despite press silence on the visit, a throng of several hundred was on hand to meet him and to be reminded of "a kind of historic harmony between our two countries, a rhythm of events that causes our destinies to march together." When Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their three oldest children went to Sunday Mass at Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral, they emerged to find a crowd of 5,000 waiting for a glimpse of them. The Kennedys clambered atop Ambassador John...
...idea of erecting an electronic billboard to measure Nishi-Ginza's sound level, translate it into phons (decibels), and transmit it in illuminated numbers to a populace presumably shamed into silence. There it stands, beside a bold sign proclaiming BE MORE QUIET! THE NOISE AT THIS MOMENT: 78 PHONS. STANDARD FOR RESIDENTIAL AREA: 50 PHONS. BUSY CORNERS: 70 PHONS...
...cycle emerges with too much regularity. After a while the graph of Sawyer's performance becomes too predictable. His farewell, however, is anything but predictable. He is the only Hamlet I have ever seen who, though stabbed and poisoned, remained standing on both legs right up to the very moment of death. I find that an admirable idea. One who recently contemplated suicide is fightingly reluctant to leave life behind...
Dirksen always waits until the last moment, tests the wind, builds suspense, and then throws his support to the seemingly popular side. If he is wrong (as in his opposition to the Marshall plan, federal housing, rural electrification, or even the test ban treaty) he doesn't stay wrong for very long...