Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of running for elective office, resourceful Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 78, should have perfected every possible defense against babies who try to reciprocate his professional affections. But last week in his home town of Bonham, Texas, Mister Sam, a childless bachelor of long standing, met a politician's minor Waterloo in eight-month-old Marty Grove, son of a Dallas reporter. Coming out of a clinch, Rayburn forgot to duck...
Schreiber, in explaining the philosophy behind the Project, often enjoys telling one particular anecdote. "It's a story Sam Levenson sometimes tells. It seems that one day his brother goes up to his father and says 'Dad, I want to go to college.' So the old man stops for a minute and he looks at him and he says 'So who's stopping you.' That's the attitude we'd like the parents of our kids to take. We'd like them to say 'Don't worry about it, son, we'll get yourself through somehow...
...missed the biggest story out there in Hong Kong. True, Cheong Sam skirts and shopping infuse the tourist with excitement, but what about the building of the housing estate blocks that are taking 1,000,000 refugees out of hillside squatter shacks and changing the whole face of the British colony? Any tourist who has experienced the giving away of 1,000 bags of noodles to hungry, screaming Chinese children will jet away with the most intoxicating memory for life...
With Leander Perez, defiance is a way of life. In 1943, when Louisiana's Governor Sam Jones appointed a Plaquemines sheriff against Perez' wishes, Perez mobilized the able-bodied men of Plaquemines, including the American Legion, set up a flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
...ingenious, 10-Ib. heart-lung machine, invented by Dr. Sam I. Lerman. a Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed to take over the functions of the heart and lungs during heart surgery, oxygenate the blood and maintain constant circulation. It has been tested successfully on dogs. The machine runs on oxygen pressure, uses no electricity, and could be manufactured to sell...