Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
Husband Jack made news enough, greeting a clutch of White House guests from Helen Keller to Negro Track Star Wilma Rudolph, who was escorted by Texan Lyndon Johnson. And Caroline was not to be forgotten: the White House announced that a special nursery school had been set up right inside the White House for her and about ten of her playmates. Wrote the Newspaper Enterprise Association's Jerry Bennett, in a story sent to 600 newspapers: "Not since Shirley Temple zoomed into international fame a quarter-century ago has an American child received so much international coverage...
...Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from...
...pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier Abdallah Ibrahim protested Blair's moving into...
...major appointment was that of Najeeb Halaby to take over from Elwood ("Pete") Quesada as head of the Federal Aviation Agency. A lawyer and longtime pilot (he flew for the Army Air Forces, then for Lockheed, and joined the Navy as a test pilot), Halaby, 45, is a native Texan of mixed ancestry: his father was Syrian, his mother of Irish-English extraction. He is familiar with the growing problems of air traffic control that plague his agency. He was vice chairman of the President's 1955-57 Aviation-Facilities Study Group, which warned that fast-moving jets would...