Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirksen," says Mansfield, "with Hick-enlooper and Aiken." Besides Dirksen, he was referring to Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper as a Midwesterner with influence over other rural conservatives, and Vermont's George Aiken as a leader of Northeastern moderates. Among them, these three could almost certainly swing enough Republican votes to put cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups, which have threatened to mount...
France, then sloped east by northeast on a routine, 2½hour "navigational training mission." The flight plan called for the 700-m.p.h., twin-jet bomber to swing over Germany's beautiful Mosel Valley to Hahn airbase, then bank north to Bremerhaven before returning with zigzags and altitude changes to Hahn and home. The flight plan should have brought the plane and its three-man crew no closer to the border than 70 miles. But somewhere between Hahn and Bremerhaven somebody slipped. According to one U.S. Air Force official last week: "They were about 120 miles off course...
Marty Kilson is a scholar who tries to swing softly, "to resonate, man." The gentle, yet persuasive, rhythm of Gov. 122b, his course covering African modernization, shows that he has succeeded. Naturally, as a "New Negro," Kilson is impassioned, knowing that answers to questions asked by his ancestors are now "blowing on the wind." But he sees passion as only part of his job; as a member of the academy, he must formulate the right questions and pin down specific answers. "The old horns of commitment and detachment set up no imposing dilemmas to the way I live or think...
...most obtrusive when he approaches the "Negro problem" with a prescribed political ideology, an ideology which emphasizes the rugged individual of liberal doctrine. "It's true that Negroes, like anyone else, prize individuality. But the thing the compulsive liberal can't understand is that we also like to swing together. You know, like we did in my good father's church back home...
Back from a four-day swing through California, the President played host to 70-odd Congressmen and their wives at a White House party (see following story). Next day he swore in the St. Louis Cardinals' retired star Stan Musial as director of his Physical Fitness Program to succeed former Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who aims to run for the Senate on the G.O.P. ticket in Oklahoma. "Stan the Man" looked around the crowded Cabinet Room with a broad grin, cracked: "If I'd known I had so many friends in Washington, I might have run for office...