Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flat Refusal. Gullion, with U.N. Un der Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing...
Aghast, Gullion tugged at Tshombe's sleeve, implored him to keep talking; the alternative, he pointed out. might well be Tshombe's own destruction, for the U.N. force that now controlled Elisabethville, Tshombe's Katanga stronghold, would never hand back the city unless agreement was reached. Ralph Bunche buttonholed both sides; two other key U.N. officials-Ghana's Robert Gardiner and Tunisia's Mahmoud Khiari-feverishly suggested possible new formulas for compromise...
...show caught on like The Honeymooners, the ironically titled description of a Brooklyn couple who had been married for ten years and fighting for nine years and twelve months. It was broad, low-median but honest humor, perhaps the best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression...
Wildest Battle. The Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary next May figures to be the wildest battle since the Alamo. Attorney General Wilson is an announced candidate. Incumbent Governor Price Daniel is wistfully weighing his chances for an unprecedented fourth term. U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the leader of Texas' liberal Democratic wing, has notions about standing for the governorship. And now comes Connally-a longtime Johnson prot...
...outs (112 in 1961) next season? "That's been my goal for six straight years," said Mantle. "I haven't done much about it so far, so I'm gonna forget about it now." Last season, a reporter recalled, Mantle had promised to help Yankee Manager Ralph Houk win a pennant in his rookie year. What about Houk's second year? Answered Mantle: "He's on his own now." Did Mantle mind batting fourth in the Yankee order, behind Maris? "It's a little tough behind a guy who hits 61 homers," said Mickey...