Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever she goes in her appointed rounds of play, Caroline Kennedy is trailed by at least one stern, watchful nurse and an equally stern, watchful Secret Service man-plenty of protection, it would seem, for any well-mannered little girl. But as any well-worn parent knows, care and caution are never quite equal to the heart-stopping hazards that occasionally complicate the existence of a cheerful, mischief-minded three-year-old. Last week Washington Star Society Columnist Betty Beale uncovered just such an incident in the life of the President's daughter...
...afternoon papers complain of invincible distribution problems (their delivery trucks must roll during rush-hour traffic), of bad time breaks at deadline, of stern suburban competition (41 afternoon suburban dailies in the New York area against only twelve morning suburbans), and of the sheer cussedness of the New York commuter. Says the World-Telegram's Managing Editor Wesley First peevishly: "If people read the morning papers going to work in the morning, why don't they all read afternoon papers on the way home...
...people above ground and 700 million tons of copper reserves below. Racing in and out of London, African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short of majority control for the blacks would be acceptable in the new constitution being drafted. Portly Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky fought back with stern threats; fearful that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless the reins remained in the hands of Northern Rhodesia's 75,000 whites. Caught in the middle, Britain's hard-pressed Colonial...
...stern and energetic old lady, a file of young girls dressed in blue jumpers and white blouses, their arms laden with daffodils, trooped across Manhattan's fashionable upper East Side. The girls marched into Central Park, gathered at the statue of William Shakespeare, knelt, and sang Hark, Hark the Lark in homage to the Bard...
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs. Riding herd over 16 sports from track and field to baton twirling, these stern defenders of amateur purity bristle when outsiders presume to promote so much as a friendly basketball game,* have often been described as "neither amateur, nor athletic, nor a union...