Word: tabletop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen's tabletop press conference came as the Senate was approaching a climactic vote on his year-long crusade to modify the 1964 Supreme Court ruling that both branches of state legislatures must be reapportioned strictly according to population. Dirksen proposed a constitutional amendment permitting the voters of each state to decide if they wanted one of their legislative branches set up on a basis other than population. For approval by the Senate, Dirksen needed a two-thirds majority of Senators present and voting -and he now knew he was going to fall a few short. Said...
...present, the slate is serving its intended purpose--a coffee tabletop--on the eleventh floor of G-tower. According to its owners, the stone came through its ordeal unscathed...
Drawing on sound anatomical knowledge, Barye built his clay models up from the skeleton. Though his sculptures are on a tabletop scale, they make picturesque heroes out of wild animals, emphasizing their surging power and proud cruelty in a way that artists have never truly bothered to portray since. Other notable animaliers included Christophe Fratin, son of a taxidermist, and Rosa Bonheur, who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting...
Grand champion in last week's contest was Henry Harnish Jr., 15, of Whippany, N.J., who estimates that he has raced against 1,000 other tabletop drivers since he started just a year ago. Henry owns more than 25 model cars, switched parts among them to achieve his championship racer. His prize: a white Thunderbird. He will give it to his father, a factory shop foreman, who will sell the family Mercury ('61) and give the money to Henry...
...Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down payment on 40,000 acres of Union Pacific land in Nebraska near the Platte River. A community there, he dreamed...