Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intensely Personal. When Buff is not saying "Let's go," she is getting other people to say it. Well does she know the uses of group appeal: she organized a "Blue Ribbon Committee" of 500 society matrons and housewives to bring in 1,000 people who would contribute $1,000 each (it took them five months, but they made it). "Women work very hard," says Buff, "when you give them a specific goal and a time limit." She has also been successful with a mass pitch, distributing shopping bags called "Buck Bags" to raise $500,000 in contributions...
...State Department officials find un settling the idea of talkative Hubert becoming a foreign policy force. In deed, the story making the rounds of the department is that Secretary Dean Rusk wrote a letter congratulating Humphrey on his election, but suggesting that he limit his foreign policy activities to ribbon-snipping ceremonies and the like; an aide persuaded Rusk to delete the suggestion from the letter and send a more tactful oral message...
Cautiously an Israeli patrol advanced along the narrow gravel road, sweeping for mines. Immediately to its left were the bubbling springs that form the headwaters of the River Dan. A few feet to its right, a white plastic ribbon marked the Syrian border. From the grey stone hills beyond, two shots rang out, and suddenly the whole area erupted into battle. Syrian mortar shells fell on three Israeli villages; Israeli jets bombed two Syrian settlements. Altogether, 10 people were killed and 37 wounded...
...blue eyes, wavy brown hair and clean-chiseled features would look great on Mount Rushmore; he has been rated by the Professional Photographers of America as the nation's most handsome Governor. He is a very pleasant, amiable and thoughtful man, as he has proved at downstate ribbon cuttings, corn-picking festivals, and beauty-contest judgings over the four years of his term...
...just seven days after he became President of the U.S. because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order No. 11,130, setting up a blue-ribbon commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate each and every aspect of the national tragedy...