Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Touch of Coyness. Tom Clark's paternal pride was all the deeper because he himself spent twelve years in the Justice Department - the last four as Attorney General - before Harry Truman appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1949. With his father at Justice, young Ramsey Clark got his first exposure to the department at the age of nine. The rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.), easy-mannered Ramsey served a hitch in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II, then studied at the University of Texas and at Chicago. Diligent, if not brilliant...
...moved over to the State Department last October, Clark became Acting Attorney General. It had taken Johnson 148 days to publicly remove the "Acting" from Katzenbach's title in 1965-and Ramsey was kept waiting precisely the same number of days. The President broke the news with that touch of coyness that has become almost a trademark. Having dropped a hint that the appointment might be forthcoming, he summoned newsmen to the White House the following day to watch him sign a document; Ramsey was standing at his shoulder. When one reporter asked if the document on the desk...
...magazines of comment were not widely circulated. "I do not know any problem in journalism," Luce said later, "which can be usefully isolated from the profoundest questions of man's fate." Yet, he allowed mischievously: "I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in TIME should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual...
Captain Bob Damus set the mood in the first sabre bout whitewashing Steve Mayberg, 5-0. After losing the first touch. Paul Profeta followed with five straight touches to clobber Tom Edwards, 5-1. Sophomore Bob Barnard completed the first-round sabre, sweep by edging Steve Getman...
Harvard's only major disappointment came in the quarter-finals when Jose Gonzalez lost to the second-seeded Ryan, the only man able to beat Nayar this year. With his touch shots made ineffectual by the warm court conditions. Gonzalez attempted to slug it out with the speedy Middie and fell short...