Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey's twelve-car motorcade was zipping across the Brooklyn Bridge one afternoon last week when suddenly the phone began to ring in the communications car ahead of him. The caller was-well, who else would telephone somebody in the middle of Brooklyn Bridge? Hubert ordered the procession to a halt when he got off the bridge, rushed up to the phone for a four-minute chat. "We had a great day," he beamed, "a terrific day here in New York, Mr. President...
...think Goldwater is just beyond belief," says Denver Playwright Robert Owens. "I just don't think he represents the Republican Party. Johnson leaves me very cold, but I am going to ring doorbells for him, and I'm going to vote for him." Says Elizabeth Carey, a Burlington, Vt., secretary (and a Republican): "I don't think too much of President Johnson, but I guess I'm really afraid of Senator Goldwater." Says G. Kinnear Pash, a Los Angeles securities analyst: "In general, you don't find too many people who are very pro-Johnson...
What's It Mean? That's quite a sentence, with a sort of anti-officialdom, let-freedom-ring sound to it. When pollsters from California's Opinion Research Inc. asked Negroes whether they approved the amendment, 59.3% said that that was just what they had been wanting all along. But when the same pollsters told the same Negroes what the practical effects of the amendment would be, 89% were against...
...rank finances of February's fight, the World Boxing Association stripped Cassius of his title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings like a bee. Gazing at the solid silver waistband Charley Mitchell won for going a bare-knuckle 39 rounds against John L. Sullivan in 1888, Muhammad AH bumbled: "They got cheap with the belts. They used to make them better." Maybe they did the fighters...
...YORK STATE'S gaudy Tent of Tomorrow, big as a football field, offers continuous amateur entertainment that makes the girders ring with the sounds of drum and bugle corps and square-dance calls...