Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ragtime Two-Step. The light-footedness took place at two White House parties, the annual diplomatic corps reception, and a state dinner for Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Regardless of what the musicians played, samba, cha-cha-cha, Dixieland or waltz, Lyndon kept in time with a simple two-step...
...hair to provoke screams that would blot out an allclear signal. This is the oddest thing in the Beatles' strange celebrity. They are adulated singers whose swarming fans scream so steadily through each song that they cannot possibly hear what is being sung. Every so often the Beatles step forward and shout, "Oh, shut up," but that only quintuples the screams. Perhaps this is because the audience already has heard on records what it is missing in mere reality...
...Rabbits. "I had no idea of going for the record," O'Hara admitted afterward-and hardly anybody in Madison Square Garden suspected what was about to happen when he toed the start. Assaults on the mile record are fashioned like Marine landings: every step is plotted in advance and rehearsed for days, even weeks. Many are out-and-out team efforts, in which two or three fleet-footed (temporarily) "rabbits" are used to ensure a fast pace for the star. But O'Hara is a one-man team, and the N.Y.A.C. field was so-so at best. Nobody...
...year, the Smithsonian still avidly collects national memorabilia-General Eisenhower's dress uniform, the Friendship 7 space capsule-but at the venerable age of 118, much of its mildew has been cleaned off. The old fossil is in the midst of a flourishing rejuvenation. In the first step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue. At the same time, the Institution got a plain-talking...
...Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, who said he was "pleased and not at all surprised at the decision." The House of Representatives, he maintained, was originally based on the principle of equal representation. "I favor the Court's decision," he said, "because it moves us one step closer to the realization of this principle...