Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bundy's departure from the White House staff had been predictable for weeks (TIME, Nov. 19). Indeed, the Ford Foundation job was hard to resist. It will allow him to keep in touch with national and. foreign affairs while maintaining contact with the worlds of politics and academe-all fine points for a man who might still aim to be Secretary of State. Characteristically, Bundy slammed no doors. Though he was a registered Republican when he signed up with John Kennedy, he told a reporter last week: "I am no longer a Republican." Asked the newsman: "You mean...
...would be to miss one of Boston's most charming moods. It's an anachronism that somehow works, a reversion that is delightful rather than reactionary. It is perhaps the only mood in which the Dickensian Charles Basin skyline is more impressive than the tall, sterile Prudential. That Dickens touch is, actually, the keynote to Boston's Christmas. Inexplicably one expects to hear "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" instead of "Jingle Bells...
Carty put Alcindor on a crash training program. For openers each day, Lew had to jump up and touch a line on the backboard 15 times in a row. The line was 11½ ft. high. Next, Alcindor practiced "stuffing" shots-jamming balls into the basket from above. After that, Carty and Lew squared off for a game of two-man basketball: the winner was the first to score 20 points. "I jumped on him," admits Carty. "I did everything I could to try and rattle...
...stone expanses of chateau walls, and their woolen thickness helped keep out the cold. But utility can lead to art, and the art of weaving came to its finest flower in the textured murals that are sumptuously spread through these pages with such fidelity that the beholder wants to touch them. The book's first three sections explore the history of tapestry weaving, a history still being written by those-among them Lurçat, at and Miró-who have revived this ancient art. The fourth and last section, by François Tabard, master weaver at Aubusson...
About 25 pickets from the Greater Boston Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam carried signs outside Cousens Gymnasium while Humphrey spoke. The Vice-President mentioned that three men who carried placards proclaiming "EAT AT JOE'S" "added a capitalistic touch to the proceedings...