Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys at the Horseshoe Tavern in Boston's proud but impoverished Charlestown district can hardly get over it. Every time they pick up their newspaper-or so it seems-there is their own Dave Powers, sitting as big as life next to the President of the U.S. David Francis Powers, the boy from Charlestown, is officially listed as a White House staff assistant-but that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter...
...baseball statistics. Last week Powers accompanied Kennedy to the All-Star game, was readily identifiable in the pictures that showed a foul ball landing near the presidential box. Reporting a game some months ago, a newspaper erroneously said that Powers had ducked a foul. The gang at the Horseshoe Tavern indignantly formed a "We Know Dave Powers Didn't Flinch Club," signed up 200 members...
...back into the corporate structure-and may my mother never draw another breath if this isn't so." Since 1957 he has acquired a $450,000 warehouse, a $900,000 motel, a $375,000 restaurant and office building, a $250,000 retail store, and a tavern worth...
...escapes recorded so far this year. Most ambitious of the tunnels went from West to East. Led by Peter Scholz, a 2O-year-old West Berlin mechanic who was separated from his East German fiancee by the Wall, six young Berliners started in the cellar of a West Berlin tavern, dug a shaft 9 ft. below ground that surfaced 60 ft. away in the basement of an East Berlin photograohy shop. There they made rendezvous with eleven friends and relatives, including Scholz's fiancee and her four-month-old daughter, Suzanne, who had to be fed tranquilizers so that...
...Finley was reported as saying the action was not only good for the play, but also for introducing the House's symbol--you guessed it an elephant--to the fresh-men. He noted that Shake-speare refers to an Elephant tavern in Twelfth Night: "Hold, sir, here's my purse, in the soth suburbs, at the Elephant, is best to lodge...