Word: sixteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Richard Nixon assaulted the reporters last week, his cries brought down around him the walls he had been building for sixteen years. So thoroughly did he demolish his castle that ABC Television News--which, after all, is now run by James Haggerty--could title its post-election study of the former Vice-President, former Senator, former everything, "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon...
...never altogether sure. The longer Nixon was in public life, the less one knew him. The very character of Nixon's discourse last Wednesday stamped him forever as washed-up; in those fifteen minutes he at last exhausted himself, confronted and killed the demon that kept him going for sixteen years. It is not that Nixon is dead; it is that he could no longer conceivably be of interest or use to anybody...
With the publication in last Friday's Boston papers of an advertisement signed by sixteen Massachusetts academicians (including eleven from Harvard) supporting Ted Kennedy, such a situation has become a sad reality. The statement on behalf of Kennedy spends most of its 500 words mis-interpreting the positions of Teddy's Republican opponent, George Lodge, and directing the voter's attention to the youngest Kennedy's potential to rubber-stamp his brother's every wish in Congress. It pleads, in effect: "Re-elect John F. Kennedy United States Senator so he can be more effective President...
...Incidents." Sixteen hours later, about 180 miles northeast of the Bahamas,, the destroyers John R. Pierce and Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.* took up stations behind a Russian-chartered Lebanese freighter named the Marucla (built in Baltimore during World War II). At daybreak on Friday, in a scene reminiscent of the 19th century, the Kennedy lowered away its whaleboat and sent a boarding party aboard the Marucla, which cooperatively provided a ladder. Wearing dress whites, Lieut. Commander Dwight G. Osborne, executive officer of the Pierce, and Lieut. Commander Kenneth C. Reynolds, the exec of the Kennedy, led the party aboard...
...cutting first-class frills. Patterson claims, airlines could provide coast-to-coast service on a one-class basis at fares only $10 over present coach rates. Coach sections, he declared, are often overcrowded beyond the safety limit for emergency evacuation. Sixteen coach passengers were suffocated, apparently waiting their turn to get out of a United plane, intact but burning, that crashed last year...