Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Join, Join, Join. No sooner had each boy been hit with his first-term bill ($1,307.50) than he was deluged with requests to rent sheets and refrigerators, teach slum kids and visit mental hospitals. There were endless tests, physical and placement, pep talks from coaches and proctors, two presidential teas, and tryouts for everything from the Crimson to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. There were endless forms to fill out, and endless appeals...
...Houston, where the new Mercury astronaut space center is abuilding, Kennedy got a briefing on orbital and moon-flight tactics from the Mercury astronauts, wound up the Texas phase of his trip with a ringing pep talk to 50.000 people at Rice University Stadium. Said the President: "Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean...
President Kennedy decided weeks ago that a quick tax cut was needed to pep up the sluggish U.S. economy. Most of his economists, including Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, urged him to call for a cut. Yet last week, when he appeared on national television to explain his policy, Kennedy came out not with a tax-cut proposal, but rather with a statement that emergency tax legislation "could not now be either justified or enacted...
Seeking to demonstrate Cuba's "socialist superiority," Castro's team had been in training for six months. Twice-weekly lectures on Marx and Lenin were supposed to put everybody in the right frame of mind. Said Castro himself, in a final pep talk: Cuba's athletes were going to Jamaica "not as athletes, but soldiers fighting the cause of socialism. There will be people who will try to kidnap you." As protection, he sent 20 secret-service men to guard his warriors; even the bat boy on Cuba's baseball team...
...moving every bit as fast as he said he would. He floats between his Westchester home and Curtis' Philadelphia office by helicopter, using a suitcase for a desk; he drives to Manhattan in a limousine, usually taking along a neighboring adman and giving him an hour's pep talk on Curtis. He always sets his watch to run nine minutes fast, and he schedules every minute of his 20-hour day. Says an associate: "Many is the time Culligan rings me up and says be in the office...