Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home-town rooters pack the house. Last week, when Ike and his teammates wrestled with Penn State, some 3,300 fans elbowed their way into Lehigh's Grace Hall, and not until the champ had pinned his man with a reverse chancery and body press did the town relax. Saddened by Lehigh's team loss, 17-13, John Pappajohn, 59, a local shoemaker and undisputed dean of Bethlehem wrestling buffs, took his consolation from Ike's victory. "He wrestle Turkish method," said grey-mustachioed Pappajohn, remembering his own youth in Turkey. "That cross body ride, that...
Many executives find that fresh air helps them to relax. Chrysler Corp. President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert religiously takes a long (i½-to 4-mile) walk every evening, says his mind is "anywhere but on business." Industrial Designer William Snaith of Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates, who sails a 47½-ft. yawl in his spare time, says: "Any activity that reunites us with elemental natural forces brings back the living, breathing human being...
...While McCann sank back to relax, White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster flew to Key West with the signature copies. The President worked over them, making new changes, adding a word here and there. Ike finally signed the copies, which Goodpaster flew back to Washington...
Starting his route at midnight, Dave gets back home when most people are leaving for work. After six hours' sleep, he puts on track clothes and spends two hours running at Olympic Park. Weekends, before Dave became a seven-day-a-week milkman, the Stephenses would relax, sleep late (6 a.m.), go through only a light routine of study and running. Saturday nights they "lashed out" with a little dissipation: a movie...
...veteran White House correspondents-and Press Secretary Hagerty- sharply disagreed with the pundits. They thought that Ike had come increasingly to enjoy the give-and-take of press conferences and to relax in the process. "It's not a strain on him," pooh-poohed Hagerty, "any more than it is on the reporters." The idea of submitting questions in writing (as newsmen did for Presidents from Wilson to Hoover) sent a shudder through the press corps at Gettysburg. "You might as well get speeches out of a guy," said Hagerty. "How many do you answer? The system never worked...