Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael was in high school, Shaker DeBakey owned a drugstore where the boy helped out and nourished the desire-acquired years earlier-to become a doctor. From his father, says Mike DeBakey, he learned his early-rising habits, the absolute abhorrence of wasted time that has marked his en tire career. His mother, whom DeBakey remembers as "the most compassionate and sweetest person I've ever known," also contributed to his career. She taught her two sons and four daughters how to sew with precision-a facility for which Mike and his brother Ernest, who is a surgeon...
...worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted the car's spare tire, a $170 portable radio, a $10 box of candy, and the oxygen kit Ike uses when he gets short of breath...
...Mentality. No longer a monolithic organization, the Klan today consists of several ragtag independent groups, the best known of which is the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., with an ex-tire salesman named Robert Shelton as its Imperial Wizard. Estimates of Klan strength range from 10,000 to 40,000 members, many of whom for some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated...
Peter Brooks, as Wake, gives an admirable performance as the perplexed, Peter Sellersish student, although he appears to tire near the end of along, arduous part. Andrew Cohen, as Jean, is a little too robust for a senile poilu, but effective nevertheless. James Pike's underplaying as Samson contrasts nicely with the extravagant gestures and postures of Elizabeth...
...three owe their fortune to some savvy progenitors. Their late father, William, founded the tire company 50 years ago with $50,000 that he had borrowed from their grandfather, a wealthy merchant. William started diversifying almost by accident; in 1940 he bought a radio station as a gift for a fourth son -now in private business in Florida-who was not interested in tires. Soon William began acquiring stations of his own. In 1955 he added Hollywood's RKO complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about...