Word: rimless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious, dedicated candidate. It'll be a campaign of contrasts." It may at that. To run against ebullient Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, one of the few serious U.S. politicians who can smile handsomely with a mouthful of wieners, Democrats have just about settled on an earnest lawyer with rimless glasses, a furrowed forehead and a rumpled Brooks Brothers suit. The prospect: U.S. Attorney Robert
Just after John Glenn's Friendship 7 plunked safely into the sea, a wiry, inconspicuous-looking man in rimless glasses hustled out of the Mercury control blockhouse at Cape Canaveral to telephone St. Louis. Moments later, 22,000 workers at the McDonnell Aircraft plant laid down their slide rules and wrenches to hear the boss's long-distance words piped over the public-address system. Said James Smith McDonnell, 62: "This is Mac calling all the team!" Then, after exulting over the orbital shot and praising the "great teamwork" that accomplished it, he signed off: "My congratulations...
...great walnut doors of the U.S. House of Representatives swung wide, and Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller announced in his drawlingest Mississippi delivery the arrival of a distinguished member. Through the door came a tall, gaunt man with a shock of white hair, rimless glasses and a thin-lipped smile. The House rose in welcome, and Massachusetts' Representative John William McCormack made his way slowly down the center aisle. His peers had just elected him the 45th Speaker of the House...
...that the opinion he had read was from "Oliver Wendell Holmes." His quick-flashing smile is no smile at all, disappearing as swiftly as the sound of clicked heels. A young, black-haired, deep-eyed man with a jut jaw and a strong, handsome face, he looks improbable in rimless glasses and courtroom robes. But he thoroughly commands the attention of both tribunal and audience. His performance is variously moving, impressive, terrifying and persuasive. For it he has just been named by the New York Film Critics the outstanding actor of 1961, and he will be a front-running candidate...
...Louis Martini: "There should be federal laws to prevent Gallo from calling those flavored drinks 'wine.' It's a disgrace to the whole history of wine." Another Napa Valley man adds bitterly: "Caesar fell. Mussolini fell. Gallo will fall!" Retorts Gallo, his frozen stare framed by rimless glasses: "It's all sour grapes. When all the sour grapes are swept away, there isn't an honest man in the industry who would tell unfriendly stories about...