Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants to kiss you good night in the lobby, you can almost feel all the eyes watching you. It's downright embarrassing." A high point of "lobby observing" (as it is known to the trade) comes when an unwary caller, thinking himself alone, begins to preen and scratch while waiting for the answering buzzer. One tenant regularly warns his caller over the intercom: "Smile, you're on Candid Camera...
...press conference. President Kennedy put in a special plug for the touched-up measure, called it "a strong bill, an effective bill." But most Senators who had originally been opposed to King-Anderson still disliked the substitute. Even so, it may scratch through the Senate. After that, its prospects in the House, congressional leaders calculated, were about the same as King-Anderson's had been: pretty...
...train missileers, the U.S. had to start from scratch-and is only just beginning. The job was given to SAC, which has had to assemble crews and drill into them the sciences of inertial guidance, pneumatics, electronics, hydraulics, cryogenics. After hours and hours of such studies, the trainees are sent on to specialized courses on various missiles (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman), then are assigned to combat crews...
...that bluntly-even though it's so. Actually, there are two separate farm problems, which require separate solutions, and some of the confusion about farm policy arises from failure to distinguish between them. There is the problem of marginal farmers, most of them in the South, who barely scratch a living from the soil; their difficulty is not overproduction but underproduction. The marginal farmer lacks the capital, land, energy, initiative, skill, or whatever else is required to earn a U.S.-style livelihood in agriculture in competition with commercial farmers. The other problem, of course, is overproduction. The Kennedy Administration...
Never Again. Perhaps nobody is. In the very first round of golf that Jack Nicklaus ever shot, at ten. he scored a 51 for nine holes-and he has never done that poorly since. Recalls his father, a Columbus, Ohio, chain druggist and a onetime scratch handicapper on the golf course: "By the time Jack was twelve, I couldn't handle him any more. I remember one day I hit as good a drive as I could, maybe 260 yds. I told Jack, 'If you outhit that one, I'll buy you a Cadillac convertible...