Word: shaves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John S. Knight's Miami paper, the Herald (circ. 336,211). When the pressmen's contract expired earlier this summer. Knight coldly pointed to their high overtime record (an average $8,700 a month since January), proposed a modest pay hike if the pressmen would agree to shave the overtime. When the pressmen walked out on Aug. 1, Knight was ready for them: he sent in an emergency press crew, and the Herald never missed an issue...
...Secretary Pierre Salinger, sat on the bed and mulled over the early-morning statistics. There were no congratulations, no jubilation: the three were much too tired, and Kennedy's triumph was much too thin. Afterward, the President-elect waved his aides away and retired to his bathroom to shave, with a straight razor. In such homely fashion the great political drama of 1960 came...
...only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... 7 wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience...
...mail. He tries to get home by 7, sips two or three bourbons and water while helping prepare dinner (usually steak). He fancies himself a cook, but sometimes lets his tastes run away with him. He once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell for a week." Later, on the nights when he is not out speaking, Goldwater may listen to records (New Orleans jazz) on a booming stereo rig he wired for himself, or settle down for some background reading. Current bedside choices: Herman...
...first is the intense young individual who values ideas and comments on academic problems with such insight and cleverness that he forgets to shave or wash. He is a grind and a recluse; he rots in Widener. The second is the companion of wine, women, and money. He talks it over in the Club in his oval-shaped Brooks Brothers suit. The third is the anti-intellectual slob--the animal. He grunts and sweats in Briggs Cage...