Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate as Ailes's successor is Republican Stanley R. Resor, 47, a Manhattan lawyer (and son of J. Walter Thompson's late board chairman, Stanley Resor) who came to the Pentagon only last month as Army Under Secretary. Resor won the Silver and Bronze Stars as an artillery major in the Battle of the Bulge. He is a particular protégé of Ailes's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and McNamara's right-hand man. Resor and Vance roomed together at Yale Law School and have been close friends ever since...
...Marisol, with her Latin Garbo looks, is an avant-garde celebrity in her own right. She has co-starred in Andy Warhol's film of uninterrupted osculation, The Kiss, and shown up at black-tie museum openings wearing such outfits as a silver snakeskin pants suit. But for all the splash she makes, Marisol is a mystery...
...Congress." A subsequent preliminary meeting of ABC, Comsat, and Federal Communications Commission officials seemed to confirm the claim. But ABC would, of course, still enjoy an enormous economy with the new satellite, and at its annual meeting, also held last week, a stockholder offered Goldenson "congratulations on snapping the silver cord with A.T. & T." Not so fast. The shareholder had forgotten that ubiquitous Mother Bell has a dominant 29% piece of Comsat...
Teddy was neither awed nor swayed. Wearing a navy-blue suit with a PT-boat tie clasp, and leaning on a silver-headed cane, he arose at the front-row desk next to Mansfield's, which he had appropriated for the occasion, and speaking from notes, defended the first major item of legislation he had ever managed on the floor. "It is a settled constitutional doctrine," orated Teddy, by way of rationalizing a universal ban on poll taxes, "that where Congress finds an evil to exist, such as the economic burden in this case, it can apply a remedy...
What's best about it is probably Lee Marvin. Dressed in snaky black, with a silver schnozz tied on where his nose used to be before "it was bit off in a fight," Marvin soberly parodies several hundred western badmen of yore, then surpasses himself as the dime-novel hero, Kid Shellen. A "good" killer, the Kid arrives in town unable to live up or even stand up to his legend. His eyes are bloodshot from poring over whisky labels. On ceremonial occasions he wears a corset. When he is primed with rotgut, his fast draw...