Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, while Tartuffe adds Gallic spice to the Elizabethan fare. On July 22, The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way on stage, and on July 23, some Chekhovian melancholy is introduced in The Seagull. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot provides a 20th century touch beginning Aug. 13. The season ends...
...federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment, says Biafran Chief Justice Louis Mbanefo, "we would not touch...
...snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds the credo of the new uncommercial makers: "You have to talk person to person with people, use people words and people terms. You have to touch them, show humanness and warmth, charm them with funny vignettes. You have to make them feel good about a product so they'll love...
...wife Carolyn is also a lawyer, specializing in taxes. A warm, vibrant woman with a touch of the feminist?she smokes cigars, insists on using her maiden name, Carolyn Agger, and tools around in her own Rolls-Royce?she seems devoted to her celebrated husband. With no children, the Fortases find ample time for recreation as well as cerebration. During the winter they ski; during the summer they swim. They summer in Westport, Conn., and their permanent home in Georgetown has a swimming pool boasting a bubble top for year-round...
...during the 1960 fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, and when L.B.J. was offered the vice-presidency by John F. Kennedy, Thornberry was one of the first friends he called for advice. "What do you think I should say?" asked Johnson. Why Lyndon," replied Homer, "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Minutes later, Thornberry reconsidered, phoned Johnson back. "Lyndon, said "I was wrong. You ought to take the vice-presidency." Three years later he was at Johnson's side in Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was pronounced dead. The new President turned to Thornberry...