Word: paperweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attempts to intimidate tall, athletic Frank Johnson are not likely to be effective. On his desk he keeps a clear glass paperweight with a quotation pasted to the bottom. Every so often he reads it: "I'll do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The author: Abraham Lincoln...
...Executive pencil box, with gold-tone paper clips, candy pills, key to the executive washroom, tension reducers, plus pencils, for only $3.95. To help him make quick decisions so that he can get home early, there is a swiveled silver dollar mounted on a paperweight, for mature heads-or-tails judgment...
...Barbara Cook is fresher than springtime. Hero Daniel Massey (the son of Raymond) is greener than first love. Hesitant, ardent, naive, highhearted, he sets the fairytale mood of a show that has to make players and playgoers alike forget the false face of logic. The plot is only a paperweight designed to keep the airy goings-on from blowing away completely...
Platinum-haired Rene Carpenter, 35, wife of Triple Orbiter Malcolm Scott Carpenter, lunching with a Rotary Club group in Austin, Texas, admitted some drawbacks to being a highly publicized astronaut's lady whose husband is "sealed up in that paperweight." However, added Rene, "we do no more than the wives of helicopter crews in Viet Nam or the women the Thresher left behind. They risked just as much and lost a great deal more. Don't feel sorry for us. It's great to whisper at liftoff, 'Don't look back-we're with...
...determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill from a Chicago firm that, by Lee's reckoning, overcharged for parking meters bought by the previous city administration. "Tell them we'll pay $8,000," said...