Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protocol." Still, the ambassador did pretty well standing on his protocol floe. After Mary warbled through ditties from South Pacific, Lodge whooped into Minnie the Mermaid ("She forgot her morals down among the corals"). Later, the State Department reported that Merrick had made a slight mistake-it was Mary's husband, Richard Halliday, who had drawn up the guest list from Dolly. Producer Merrick sheepishly decided to recast the ambassador as a "charming, handsome...
...some ways, the Times was doing about as well as it ever had, but that was not well enough. Circulation stood at 91,235, a slight gain over last year. Ad revenue was up 6% over the year before. However, payroll and production costs had risen far more sharply. Like other Scripps-Howard papers, the Times pinched its pennies and overworked its reporters but still could not turn a profit. "This was one of the smallest towns in the country with three papers," said Managing Editor Irving Leibowitz, agonizing over throwing 420 people out of work. "The fight was lost...
...that has distributed $347 million in grants since 1911; he left that post this year to take the job at HEW. The man who is directly in charge of administering the Federal Government's education programs is Gardner's Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight (5 ft. 10 in., 152 lbs.) intense bolt of activity. In three short years in Washington, Keppel has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment...
...Fancied Slights. The two major parties are Inönü's Republicans and Demirel's Justice Party. Inönü won the 1961 election, but was toppled by Demirel on a budget vote in February (a caretaker regime has ruled since). The 82-year-old former Premier, chagrined at Demirel's rising popularity, is trying to stage a comeback with an anti-American-and pro-Soviet-stance. As a ru|e, Turks are conservative voters, but Inönü's tactics may win support in a land that has grown increasingly touchy...
Brooding over this slight, I've been trying to find a way to pick against the Dodgers in the World Series. I thought I'd go for the Twins on the standard cliches: they can hit, they can run, and their pitching is no worse than the Dodgers' hitting. They can pound out the homers, or they can scratch for the single run. Sure, the Dodgers' pitching is great, but they can't pitch shutouts every day, and worse pitchers than Camilo Pascual have shut out the Dodgers this year. Maybe they go 23 innings in a scoreless...