Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major part in the 1962 Nassau agreement with Britain and the implementation of the dismantling of ground-based missiles in Turkey and Italy. McNaughton also traveled to Moscow with Averell Harriman to help negotiate the test-ban treaty. Because he may be called to work on "crises" at any moment, McNaughton says he doesn't "dare run the risk of being away from his office." The object of risk is a single telephone with a blue light at which he stares with awe. If the phone rings, assistant secretary Gilpatric is calling; if both the phone rings and the light...
...Flaw." In the emotion of the moment, such hair-shirtism was inevitable. But it would be as wrong to accuse a whole people or a nation of such extremism as it would be to argue for hatred. And perhaps it remained for Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton, rising in the U.S. Senate, to best place it all within context: "It was not a flaw in the American system or the American character that struck down John Kennedy. It was not the sin of a city or of its citizens. It was not a tragedy that struck from some dark stain...
...events contributed to the calmer view. One was the silent, heroic posture of Jacqueline Kennedy. Even more significant was the orderly transition with which one democratic leader gave way to another in a moment of great stress. Acknowledged with profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual...
...murder with a clarity and drama that television cameras on the scene missed. For the News, Photographer Jack Beers snapped a picture, a split second before the killing, that showed Jack Ruby's gun aimed point-blank at Oswald. Times Herald Photographer Bob Jackson caught the actual moment of shooting and the grimace of pain on Oswald's face, the looks of horrified disbelief on the faces of his police escorts...
Busy Hands. A workaday end and halfback under Bob Zuppke at Illinois Halas had his greatest moment when a football blew up as it was kicked off by an Illini opponent. Halas grabbed the deflated ball and took off, waving it like a handkerchief as he ran "I got all the way to the 40 before somebody thought to tackle me," he chuckles. Signed as a rightfielder by the New York Yankees in 1919, Halas played in 12 games and batted .091. The Yanks lost little time replacing him with an ex-Boston pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Back...