Word: swore
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After unanimous Senate confirmation of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of the new Housing and Urban Devel opment agency, the President swore in his first Negro Cabinet member in a grandiose East Room ceremony illuminated for TV's benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn...
...surprisingly, Nigerians fell in immediately behind their new regime. Businessmen and labor unions cheered, university students paraded through the streets of Lagos bearing a coffin and a banner proclaiming "Tyranny Has Died." All political parties-including the deposed Northern People's Congress-swore their allegiance. Editorialized the West African Pilot: "This great country has every reason to be proud of the military, which has taken over the fumbling feudal and neocolonialist regime. Today, independence is really...
...Senate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey swore in the only new mem ber: Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio...
Rickey not only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry...
...year-old lieutenant colonel, marching to prison camp with the beaten remnants of the U.S. Army on Bataan, Johnson swore that no troops he might ever command again would go into battle unprepared for the war they would have to fight. Again, in October 1950, moving among dazed, defeated soldiers in Korea, he vowed not to be bound by the "school solution." In the Pentagon, Johnson has labored devotedly to instill those lessons. Cigar-chomping Army Vice Chief of Staff "Abe" Abrams, an iron-nerved commander who led Patton's tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls...