Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy while the President remained idle, they went outside for a brisk period of touch football. The President, his sisters, and brother Ted also drove into Hyannis to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. memorial skating rink; all but Jack put on rented skates and spent an hour playing tag on the ice and practicing figure eights. That evening, after the children had eaten, the Kennedy adults sat down in Father Joe's dining room to a groaning board: Vermont turkey, candied sweet potatoes, cranberries from nearby bogs and assorted pies...
...enough courage in their cups, some pressagents refer to her simply as "the old broad"-after glancing nervously around to see that only friends are present. The object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam; $3.95), to the legend of a girl reporter who came out of Dixon, Ill., to spend nearly 40 years as the queen...
...material. Result: the bigger the bomb, the cheaper it is in terms of explosive yield. Clark figures that a ten-megaton bomb costs somewhat more than $1,000,000, mostly for the detonator. But further increases in yield cost only about $5,000 per megaton, so that the price tag on a 100-megaton bomb is roughly $1,500,000. A 1,000-megaton bomb would cost $6,000,000. Once they acquired enough fission material, many middle-sized countries could fashion even bigger bombs and, by using certain techniques, produce near-Doomsday destruction and death by exploding comparatively...
After raising the price tag twice, the Administration finally concluded that the budget deficit for fiscal 1962 will be about $6.9 billion, less than the peacetime record of $12.4 billion in 1959, but far from the hopes Kennedy held before Soviet threats forced the U.S. into an accelerated arms buildup. Kennedy still promised a balanced budget for 1963 "barring extraordinary and unforeseen defense requirements"-and he clearly felt that now is the time to begin working toward it. "Appropriations," he told the heads of federal agencies, "are only a ceiling, not a mandate to spend . . . The current outlook re-emphasizes...
...truthfully enough that "from the rigid formality of his manners, it is evident that [Hawkins and Johnson] never could have lived together with companionable ease and familiarity." When Hawkins resigned from Johnson's famous Literary Club after a short membership. Dr. Johnson wryly pronounced him "unclubbable," and the tag has stuck...