Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed bond issues to raise more than $2.9 billion for new roads, airport terminals, schools, parks, subways, sea walls, water and sewer mains and urban renewal. Their decision: overwhelming approval of well over two-thirds of the bond issues, ranging from $1,500,000 for new firehouses in Omaha to $790 million for schools and parks in California. For the U.S. economy, the $2.2 billion in new state and local borrowing thus voted means an added stimulus that will spread through many indus tries and areas...
...admiral bellows one night in a manic epiphany. "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! We'll build him a monument -the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor." Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner. Next day every daily in the U.S. front-pages his picture, but a week later the corpse turns up alive. "Omigawd!" gasps the officer (James Coburn) in charge of public relations. "Instead of a dead hero...
...Omaha, Neb., Miller cried: "When all is said and done, there's only one real issue in this campaign-character versus corruption. And in Barry Goldwater we have the character, and they can have the corruption." In Reno, Nev., Miller condemned the Administration's war on poverty as "a cruel hoax on the American people, put into effect two months before the election, not with any thought of correcting poverty but only to buy votes for Lyndon Johnson with taxpayers' money...
Mickey presents Mickey Rooney as an Omaha salesman who inherits a marina in Southern California, and with it a crooked Chinese manager who has a lifetime contract. The situation is un promising and the dialogue ("Only registered guests are permitted to drown in the pool") needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...
Hank Barrow of the Omaha WorldHerald emphasizes Goldwater's square jaw and set mouth to give an impression of resoluteness. Bill Mauldin of Chicago's Sun-Times takes an evenhanded position. Although critical of Goldwater's politics, he draws the candidate with a broken nose and high forehead to convey a synthesis of the thoughtful man of action. Mauldin's philosophy: "You portray a guy for what he is, not what you think of his politics...