Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME correspondents in city after city found Americans thinking well beyond pot roast as they measured personal involvement with news. Said Sam Weller, a Salt Lake City book salesman: "We're going in the right direction now. There is no need for the United States merely to be caught up in events. We can control them." And nearly every eye was on Washington to see whether "we" - mean ing the President of the U.S. - would. "God. I hope he's up to it, " said a Los Angeles housewife apprehensively. In Albuquerque, Alice Schaab, wife of a tax lawyer...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn has long opposed any additional seats, feeling that the House is big enough, would become cumbersome and unmanageable if it got any bigger. But with pressure from many an old friend who might lose a seat, Mister Sam is wavering. He asked Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the Democratic whip, to make a quiet investigation and some recommendations. Then Rayburn let it be known that for the time being he would take a neutralist position. He still has misgivings, believes that the Chelf bill might open the door to further growing pains. "First thing you know...
With a solecism worthy of Sam ("Include me out") Goldwyn, Harvard's Dean of Admissions Fred Glimp reports that high school seniors this year are "selecting themselves out" of the competition to get into the nation's best college. In un-reverse English, this means a surprising drop in applications. The decline applies throughout the Ivy League-last thing the Ivy weeders expected...
...foreign affairs. Since taking office, his soft words have been used more often than his stick: day after day, congressional leaders have dropped by the White House for chats-and exposure to the effortless Kennedy charm. But he threw the full weight of his prestige behind House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the fight over the Rules Committee, personally calling up important Congressmen to get their support. On his order, most of his Cabinet members lobbied too. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall was caught red-handed threatening cuts in big public projects in retribution for anti-Rayburn votes. Somewhat nervously, Udall telephoned...
...Dartmouth, the man to watch is big George Ramming (6 ft., 5 in., 235 lbs.) who does a lot of the scoring and most of the rebounding. The cornermen are 6 ft., 6 in. Dan Berry and 6 ft., 4 in. Sam Barton...