Word: sacrosanctity
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...year-old Lord Patrick Beresford, her escort at the Ascot races. Handsome Doug, whose swash shows no signs of buckling at 47, got the first dance with the Queen, also got a precedent-breaking (because Fairbanks and his wife are divorced) invitation to tea at Ascot on the sacrosanct sod of the Queen's Lawn...
...Senate, adroitly led by Chief Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson (see below), defied tradition by not only refusing to restore House cuts but cutting even deeper. (One surprising victim: J. Edgar Hoover's almost sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation, clipped some $150,000.) And with the Republican leadership sitting back in amused tolerance, Johnson & Co. turned with special glee on the President's pet program for fighting the propaganda war against Communism, the U.S. Information Agency. The Senate not only accepted the House's $38 million cut in USIA's $144 million request (which Ike publicly called...
...Strung Up. The people like Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual...
This is, in effect, what the Russians have done. Though they pledge to repay the 265 billion rubles outstanding in twenty years--a promise far from being sacrosanct--inflation and expansion will probably have made this sum insignificant. By 1980 the Soviet gross national product can possibly quadruple from its present value of one trillion rubles. At the legal rate of exchange this is $250 million, but at the actual consumer value of the ruble it is closer to $100 million...
...revolve around him. The condition was described by his onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome. "And he had the nerve to move his hips in time to the music. Hutzpa...