Word: splash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Splash at Hickory Hill," it takes an awful lot of water to fill a 40-ft. by 16-ft. swimming pool, but it looks like we've got enough drips in Washington...
...guest list, 300 names long, for the outdoor dance at Hickory Hill, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's country place in McLean, Va., was such as to make a splash in any sort of political society. Included were the Lyndon Johnsons, British Ambassador David Ormsby Gore and Lady O. G., Supreme Court Associate Justice Whizzer White, Mrs. John Glenn and her husband (who has been something of a fixture at the Hickory Hill lunching pad since he got back from outer space), the Stew Udalls, the Orville Freemans, the Arthur Goldbergs and assorted White House aides, including Arthur Schlesinger...
...Fountain resumed hearings on Estes' massive grain-storage operations. The Fountain investigation was only a sort of aperitif served up before full-course Senate hearings scheduled to begin June 27 under the chairmanship of Arkansas' leathery John McClellan. But even so, the Fountain subcommittee made a splash of its own. Over the protests of Republican members, the subcommittee's Democratic majority fired the minority counsel, Republican Lawyer Robert E. Manuel. His offense: giving a New York Herald Tribune reporter a copy of the Agriculture Department's suppressed 1961 report on Estes' illegal dealings in cotton...
...Charlotte, N.C., Observer, the news from Charleston, S.C., 120 miles to the southeast, made a considerable splash last week. "At least seven downtown merchants here," wrote the Observer in a two-column story datelined Charleston, "have hired Negroes as clerks or cashiers under pressure of a seven-week buying boycott. It is the biggest breakthrough of Negroes into white-collar jobs in the city, and probably in the state." But in Charleston itself, where the boycott has been in effect since March 17, the story rated nary a line in either the News & Courier (circ. 61,500) or the jointly...
...They make something of a splash when they start-but people get a little sophistication, a little education, and this kind of religion loses its appeal." Others are not so sure, and regard the growth of storefront religion as a challenge to the relevance of traditional Protestantism...