Word: nebraskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year term as governor. Robertson agrees with Johnson that the thriving U.S. economy is not yet in a boom and thus needs no hike in interest rates to restrain its growth. Says he: "I don't intend to begin fighting inflation until inflation begins." The tall, spare Nebraskan fought the board's decision to raise stock-margin requirements from 50% to 70% last November (he wanted a 10% boost), and was the only member to vote against last July's discount rate hike from 3% to 3.5%. A lawyer of direct style and breezy off-hours informality...
There he stands, and who can believe him? Black corduroy cap, green corduroy shirt, blue corduroy pants. Hard-lick guitar, whooping harmonica, skinny little voice. Beardless chin, shaggy sideburns, porcelain pussycat eyes. At 22, he looks 14, and his accent belongs to a jive Nebraskan, or maybe a Brooklyn hillbilly. He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist. And when he describes his young life, he declares himself dumfounded at the spectacle. "With my thumb out, my eyes asleep, my hat turned up an' my head turned on," says Bob Dylan, "I's driftin...
...Blood. For Ford, Miller's promotion has particular significance. Like McNamara before him, the razor-sharp, rapid-fire Nebraskan is what is known as a "Friden type"-Detroit's term for financial men, derived from the trade name of a calculator. Miller's move into the presidency is thus a clear sign that the often criticized financial elite will continue to guide Ford's future...
...Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...