Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam with a pet crocodile. Once he came upon a lion about to give the coup de grace to an antelope, spoke sharply and stared the lion back into the bush...
Last week U.S. Steel was forced to go along with a pet Soss project. On proxy ballots mailed out for the annual meeting May 2, management included a Soss proposal that stockholders be permitted to vote on whether they want a secret ballot in proxy voting, the first such proposal in corporate history. She contends that so much corporate stock is held by employees that they need the protection of a secret ballot to vote against management proposals. When Mrs. Soss first petitioned the corporation for her proposal, it refused. Mrs. Soss took her case to the SEC, which, without...
...mayor of Louisville and U.S. housing expediter in 1946 under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss. At his first cabinet meeting, Combs listened politely while tough Earle Clements, who had been appointed highway commissioner, outlined a pet proposal. Combs replied quietly but firmly: "Nope, that ain't the way we're going to do it." And a point was established...
...could-go to the forthcoming summit conference "with a clear understanding of the views of our friends in this region." (Editorialized Rio's Journal do Brasil: "This is the first time that we talk to the U.S. on equal standing.") He also endorsed some of the Presidents' pet projects. Example: in Chile, he laid the groundwork for President Alessandri's plan for hemisphere disarmament by promising immediate U.S. military aid if any hemisphere nation is attacked. And behind the scenes, hand-picked U.S. experts mapped follow-up actions with Latin leaders (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...with four dancing couples stopping to fling out such remarks as: "She said he proposed something on their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor, and an amusing Paul Ford having trouble in one skit getting rid of a mermaid and in another getting rid of his wife (Peggy Cass), and then with both men tipsily shopping in Fifth Avenue's tonier shops. Or people rewrite poems for an anthology that...