Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Present for Takeoff. Nixon made a few minor fluffs during his unrehearsed half-hour stand-up performance at the Shoreham. He forgot to name Maurice Stans as he introduced his Secretary of Commerce, and he referred to President Kennedy's "first inaugural"; there was, of course, only one. But he spoke without notes or lectern, in marked contrast to the wrap-around electronic prompters Lyndon Johnson regularly uses. Because of the ease and experience that he gained on camera in the 1968 campaign, he plans to make repeated informal use of TV in his Administration to get even closer...
Sometime Gandy Dancer. Just why this should be, Westermann himself is unable to explain. He is an avowed anti-intellectual who insists that he never reads books. At 46, he still likes to stand on his hands with a cigar in his mouth. After all, he was once a professional acrobat-and he likes cigars. The son of a Los Angeles accountant, he took off as a youth for the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. Since then, he has worked as a carpenter, plasterer and handyman, fought as a Marine in two wars before hitting upon his present trade...
...York City detectives, under the auspices of the First National City Bank, conducted a fraud clinic to acquaint merchants with ways of cutting their losses. Similar campaigns have been launched by retail associations from Georgia to Texas. Chicago retailers have urged the courts to take a tougher stand against shoplifters, asking for higher bond, fewer continuances and stiffer fines and sentences. Penalties already run as high as $10,000 and ten years in jail, but teen-age first offenders often get off with merely a reprimand...
After the Rutgers game, Harvard will begin to get ready for its Christmas tournament, a two-night stand at the University of California at Santa Barbara, December 27 and 28. Depending on the draw. Harvard will play one night against Santa Barbara or Texas Christian University--the defending Southwest Conference champion -- or Fordham -- which has lost only to Columbia, by nine points...
...football sod. One of the most powerful arguments against the infinite perfectability and for the original sin of man is the steady accumulation of astoundingly vulgar pieces of brassy claptrap and woolly woodwind shrieks which feed the voracious football band. In the face of this surging ocean of treacle stand a handful of superb works for wind, three of which--Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat and Octet, and Gustav Holst's Hammer-smith: Prelude and Scherzo--were performed by the newly organized and intensely promising Harvard Wind Ensemble...