Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond that he was "confused" and California's Clair Engle that he was "mixed up." To a big company like Hanna (total assets: $450 million), he said, the smelter deal was "small potatoes"; for that matter, the nickel contracts were the "tag end of our business." He had, he said, been too busy with more important Hanna interests to pay much attention to the nickel contracts while they were being negotiated. Actually, he argued, the nickel deal was very simple, and he could not understand why it was unclear to the Senators...
...Cold Start. But McNamara soon discovered that there was little coordination between the three Army divisions in the U.S. and the fighter and transport units of the Air Force's Tactical Air Command. McNamara's solution was to merge the three divisions and all Stateside units of TAG into a unified command that became known as STRIKE. To command STRIKE, McNamara picked the Army's General Paul D. Adams, 55, a let-the-chips-fall combat veteran of World War II, Korea, and a leader of the hastily assembled U.S. police force sent to Lebanon...
...opponents tried to tag him with his friendship with Billie Sol Estes. Billie Sol and Clement, both named among the Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Outstanding Young Men" of 1953, became pretty good buddies: Clement named Billie Sol an honorary colonel on the Governor's staff; Billie Sol cut Clement in on a couple of financial deals. But that didn't seem to matter. The people of Tennessee apparently just love to hear Frank Clement talk. And so does...
Second Generation. They are known-sometimes disparagingly-as "the Whiz Kids," the tag originally hung on McNamara and nine fellow Army Air Forces officers who sold themselves to Ford as a team after World War II. Today's second-generation Whiz Kids share many of the qualities of the old McNamara group...
...Says Boston Gerontologist Natalie Cabot: "Nobody ever suddenly becomes Negro or Jewish, but people do suddenly become retired. They become a minority almost overnight, and it hits them hard, usually within the first three weeks." A retired man finds himself not only without a job but without an "identification tag'': someone accustomed to thinking of himself as a railroad man or an insurance executive is often seriously disoriented when he finds that he is no longer anything...