Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford, 46, a good friend since Nixon's early days in Congress; Charles Percy, 40, Chicago industrialist (president of the Bell & Howell Co.) and chairman of the blue-ribbon Republican Committee on Program and Progress (TIME, May 11, 1959); and Attorney General William...
...outskirts of Ladysmith, the Kennedy motorcade slowed down as it got near a group of cheering nuns and postulants, chilled from waiting at the roadside. Kennedy ordered a halt, hopped out of his car. One postulant wished him a happy St. Patrick's Day, pinned a green ribbon on his lapel. But Kennedy looked uncomfortable when photographers' bulbs popped. Later, when visiting the nearby convent, Kennedy barred photos. "I think not," he said, raising his hand. Back in the car, Kennedy explained that pictures are not allowed in some convents, tore off all but the slightest fragment...
...evidence of his year of crime collaboration with ten Chicago cops (TIME, Feb. 1). This evidence, on top of everything else, gave Democrat Daley the worst political rocking of his five years in office, prompted him to demote his police commissioner. To California's Wilson and a blue-ribbon citizens' committee, Mayor Daley gave a sweeping order: Find the best police superintendent in the country. Last week, after interviewing no fewer than 37 candidates, the committee found its man: its own chairman, Orlando Winfield Wilson. To upgrade the job, Daley raised the superintendent's pay from...
...Right off, he told a black-tie dinner at the National Aviation Club in Washington about his plans for the Air Age and his awareness of the dangers. "There is a lot to learn in Washington about cannibals," he informed a big audience packed with Congressmen, Senators and blue-ribbon aviation-industry executives, "but I don't intend to be chewed . . . I don't intend to get caught in Washington like the girl with the Gleem...
...statue of Jose Marti, Cuba's George Washington, and took off for the Palace of Fine Arts, two blocks away, to open the exposition with an outdoor speech. A few minutes later a small group of students approached the statue with their own wreath, bearing a ribbon that said: "Vindication for the visit of the assassin Mikoyan." When cops waved them off, a student shouted: "If he can place a wreath, why can't we?" Soldiers guarding Mikoyan at the exposition rushed up on the double, began firing their new Belgian automatic rifles wildly...