Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tall and Dignified...
...came clear down the pike with no trouble a'tall," observed a beaming Suffolk County file clerk who was standing by the upholstered bar at Louise Day Hicks headquarters. After another sip of his Budweiser, he slipped into a confidential tone: "And she'll be elected. You know it's not so much she's anti-Negro as it is she's for the white people." With a sly wink he added, "and why not? There was no civil rights when our people were coming...
...year-old White House social aide who sought and won Lynda Bird Johnson's hand, could not have turned out better for the President, who had made no secret of his displeasure over Lynda's long ro mance with draft-deferred Actor George Hamilton. Robb is tall (6 ft. 1½), dark, handsome, athletic, affable, intelligent, earnest, circumspect-and can hardly wait for his assignment to Viet Nam early next year. And while the first eight qualities are the most likely to put stars in Lynda's eyes, it is the last attribute that assures there will...
Balconies Too. The idea was to make the whole thing look like a South Sea archipelago. In February 1965, a consortium of oil companies (Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil and Shell) went to work hauling in rock and sand fill to build four ten-acre islands. Palm trees as tall as 60 feet were transplanted from Santa Barbara and San Diego, and architects were put to work sketching terra-cotta and steel shells for the oil rigs, designed to look like handsome balconied apartment buildings and soundproofed to keep the drilling noise from echoing across...
Looking Up. In 1954 Jean Marin, a journalist and radio commentator, took over as A.F.P. general manager. Everyone looks up to Marin; he not only stands 6 ft. 31 in. tall, but by 1957 he had established a correspondent in Peking, freed the agency from official French control, and begun to woo the 150 subscribers in 60 countries that A.F.P. has since won. Marin, now 64, has expanded his team of correspondents and stringers by 100. They are free to enter and report from almost every nation in the world except Albania and Guinea...