Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 7:50 (weekend...
...Corporation four years ago granted him broad powers in the wake of the 1969 University Hall bust. The previous year Cox had chaired a blue-ribbon panel on campus disorders at Columbia University...
...personnel and the purse strings of her household. West's efforts to keep a diary were short-lived, but he has an observant eye and an astonishing memory for detail. Eleanor Roosevelt, he recalls, was "never once alone in the same room with her husband." Mamie Eisenhower, pink ribbon in her hair, propped up against her personally designed pink-tufted headboard, grandly issued commands at her daily bedside staff meeting like a general preparing for Dday. Jacqueline Kennedy instructed West to run the house as he would "for the chinchiest President ever elected." Why? Because, she confided...
Compared with the punctilious reception accorded Richard Nixon upon his arrival in Peking, French President Georges Pompidou enjoyed gala ribbon-and-banner treatment at the start of his week-long visit to China. More than 4,000 brightly dressed schoolgirls were at the airport last week to cheer and wave at the arriving 15-man French delegation. Seven of China's new 25-member Politburo were also on hand, including Premier Chou En-lai and the newly risen star Wang Hung-wen (TIME, Sept. 17). Pompidou himself matched the warmth of his welcome. Beginning his two-hour meeting with...
...struck, and it is debatable which one strikes the innermost chord of the people. It is like Mailer went on a binge at a country fair on several tests of strength, and his sledgehammer rang a merry tune. Listen to the prizes! Who can say which is the Blue Ribbon of the Vastest Common Denominator? His speculation upon the possibilities of FBI or Kennedy interests involved in her death made a hearty feast for The National Enquirer; his countersuit with one of his sources who had charged him with plagiarism found a willing niche in the news pages...