Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck as "a tough politician, like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union is a lot taller. Replied Mister...
...star of TV's long-running (four years) Highway Patrol series, tough-guy Actor Broderick Crawford, arrived in London on vacation, startled newshounds by disclosing that he no longer touches a steering wheel. Patrolman Crawford explained: "On California's coast highway, one time, I got my Jaguar XK-140 up to 120 m.p.h. before I was stopped at a roadblock. Ever since, it's become a game with police officers to pick me up. Now I have a chauffeur...
...Austerity Czar. Frondizi went on to consult with big businessmen, stockbrokers, landowners, bankers-the group Argentines call the fuerzas vivas (productive forces)-and announced a new Cabinet. Key man, as Minister of Economics, was Alvaro Alsogaray, 46, a tough, bouncy free enterpriser in the Ludwig Erhard mold. Said he to Frondizi: "I will carry out your austerity plan, but with my own methods and my own team...
Success has left Jonah with one big worry: that his lip will go. Blowing into a mute all night is a tough assignment, requires twice as much air power as playing an unmuted instrument. Long ago Jonah developed what fellow trumpeters call a "big-band lip," but he still finds the going tough if he does not carefully pace himself. "These people come in with requests," he says, "like I Can't Get Started, and I'm thinking about that F sharp on the end, and I think, 'Man, you can request, but this...
aviation today is a onetime fighter pi lot named Elwood Richard Quesada. As the first administrator of the new Federal Aviation Agency, "Pete" Quesada has the tough task of ensuring the safety of the na tion's 93,900 aircraft and millions of passengers as the U.S. slams into the jet age with the speed- and potential hazard-of a .45-cal. bullet. Last week, after buzzing Senators for weeks, Pete Quesada won a major victory. The Sen ate restored $48.8 million of the $76 million cut by the House from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget...