Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy touch" (forward passing legal anywhere on the field) continued on the broad, sloping lawn, with Astronaut John Glenn and then Campaign Bodyguard William Barry taking Bobby's place as quarterback. The children swam in the pool whenever the soggy weather improved. But Ethel Kennedy's best therapy was the exuberance of Christopher, 4, Matthew, 3, and Douglas, 15 months, who, too young to understand what had happened, continued in their usual bouncy style, restoring some feeling of normalcy to the stricken household...
...Watts the candidate was thumped, patted, jostled, and pushed by the smiling young Negroes who crowded around him, eager for a glimpse and a touch. Perspiring in the crush, he seemed as happy as they, interrupting the handshaking only long enough to brush away a wayward forelock that had tumbled over his eye. If the scene recalled one of Robert Kennedy's last visits to the black ghetto, it was not entirely an accident. Seemingly awakened from a trance by Kennedy's murder. Nelson Rockefeller was at last campaigning for real, openly seeking the support of the poor...
...what with their Great Dane, they had too much house and too little yard in their suburban residence in Westland, they consulted a broker subscribing to Realtron. Their specific requirements were checked off and fed into the computer; within five seconds, Realtron came back over the broker's Touch-Tone telephone with a list of houses answering their description (where none are available, the computer moves on to list those "nearest" to what they have specified). In the Grimas' case, the requests were so special that it took two weeks for the computer to find their dream solution...
...network TV next fall. Morton also plans to make television shows, publish a sex magazine and, he adds, become a movie actor. Among other things, these departures may be a hedge against the danger that grows with every year that a producer ages: "cooling," or losing the golden touch. But the way they are rolling now, these producers need not worry too much. When asked what they will do when they get older, Koppelman and Rubin reply: "We hope to be on the Riviera by then...
...Someday touch me, all you wish...