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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these figures as proof of its virtue: early this year Estes' facilities were 43.4% filled with federal grain as against a Texas statewide average of 48.6%; later on, Estes' figure rose to 58.3%, but the state average also went up, to 62.9%. Said a White House staffer: "If Estes was spending a lot of money at Agriculture, he sure wasn't getting much for it." The Schemer. All the while that Estes' assets were growing, his liabilities were mounting even faster. In 1960 he ventured on another desperate scheme for making big money. Estes had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Decline & Fall | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model, and as the newest fashion staffer on Harper's Bazaar. Said she of her latest venture: "I have so much to learn that I'm killing myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Musical Chairs | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...slippery ways, and McCormack himself admits to what he calls "diversionary" tactics. When pressed for a decision or a political commitment, he shrouds his plans and motives with a cloud of words as thick and nebulous as the cigar smoke that usually surrounds him. Says a frustrated White House staffer: "He takes half an hour just to say hello.'' Once, McCormack drove Curley to distraction by refusing to say whether or not he intended to run for mayor of Boston. After mushroom clouds of doubletalk, and in his own good time-when a candidate of his own choosing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Mr. Speaker | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser under the ire of the White House's youngest staffer: "Hours of painstaking care must be taken to remove antique paper from old plaster walls...Anyone willing to contribute this amount of time and expense is to be commended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...AMERICA'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The L.A. Times reaches further, dubs itself ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT NEWSPAPERS. The World's Greatest Newspaper? By decree of the late Colonel Bertie McCormick, that title was taken by his own Chicago Daily Tribune in 1911. As a staffer shrugged last week, "We can hardly back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maxims & Moonshine | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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