Word: pelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
...Poker Face" during the war-is the choice of Republican Governor John Chafee and the G.O.P. state central committee, and is thus the strong favorite to win the Republican primary next month. Confident of this, the colonel last week officially opened the campaign with all sights trained on Claiborne Pell and November...
Steady Blue Eyes. Senator Pell will need every bit of his suavity to answer the challenge-for the colonel is a lady. She is, in fact, Lieut. Colonel Ruth Briggs, 55, a much-bemedaled, widely experienced veteran of 20 years in the WACs, who was enticed out of retirement by Governor Chafee to take a crack at Socialite Pell, 47. Colonel Briggs, her hair swept back from the forehead and braided on top as it has been for the past 20 years, has been lambasting Pell for weeks, touring factories and stores with a firm handshake, steady blue eyes...
Partially because she is not yet widely known, no one gives Colonel Briggs much of a chance to unseat Claiborne Pell. Still, some pretty unusual things have happened to Ruth Briggs in her career-and could happen again. Among the first WACs to be sent overseas, she quickly found herself in charge of a packed lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean-and the senior British officer in the lifeboat became seasick. "Being a Rhode Islander," she explains, "I've been around small boats all my life...
Fast Resuffle. The passion for pilgrimage has made the airlines the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., expanding by an average 14% a year since 1950, as against 8.4% for the runner-up, electric utilities. The pell-mell pace is still accelerating: this year U.S. airlines plan to take delivery of 287 new jet and turbo-prop planes worth almost $1.5 billion, nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation...