Word: suited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were plenty of questions-among them: Did the timing of the General Motors suit indicate an attempt to take the wind out of the Democratic election year charges that "this is a big-business administration?" Brownell's reply: "I don't believe that deserves an answer, because everybody knows we've been studying this problem for some months." But the big questions did not come until after the show. Brownell had not held a Washington press conference since October. Why, asked a reporter, had he saved his major news announcement for release on a commercially sponsored...
...week's end the Justice Department filed its suit in Detroit (see BUSINESS). Other performing artists on commercial television, from Perry Como to Jackie Gleason, would have to concede that there is something extra in being Attorney General...
...long days last week, while ashes from chain-smoked cigarettes dribbled down the front of his blue suit, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson faced up to a drumfire attack on defense policy directed at him by Democrats on the Senate's airpower subcommittee. Sometimes he answered questions with the weary patience of a father harassed by a child; sometimes he wandered unresponsively, while senatorial patience frayed. But always-with remarkable success for Engine Charlie Wilson-he fought to keep a curb on his shop-foreman's tongue...
...travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid bathing suit and go down with the kids and have a good time." There, she is always careful not to outdo her male friends...
...glided to the curb before the plush and towering Hampshire House overlooking the grass, trees and lake in lower Central Park. From the back seat edged the car's solitary passenger, a handsome, meaty man with wavy silver hair. He was dressed in a businesslike grey summer suit, red and white striped bowtie and soft black loafers. Stepping to the pavement, he turned slightly, tossed the driver of the rented limousine a "Thank you, James." Then David John McDonald, 53, president of the United Steelworkers of America, strode confidently past the smiling doorman, through the revolving door...