Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years as mayor of St. Louis, Raymond Roche Tucker floated $129.5 million in public-improvement bonds, bulldozed away acres of slums, attacked the traffic problem. Today, monuments to his administration stand everywhere: a nearly completed arch, designed by the late Eero Saarinen, symbolizing the city's history as a gateway to the West; an $89 million sports stadium rising from what was once Skid Row; 602 city blocks undergoing a facelift...
...last week St. Louis voters turned Tucker out, nominated as his replacement a prominent Jack-of-all-trades with the fascinating name, in the city of Anheuser-Busch, of Alphonso Juan Cervantes. A great-great-grandson of a Spanish immigrant from Barcelona who wandered to frontier St. Louis via New Orleans, Cervantes, 44, served for four years as president of the city's board of aldermen until he was defeated in 1963 by a Tucker-backed candidate. Cervantes is president of an insurance agency, vice president of the Resort Corp. of Missouri, which operates a lodge beside Missouri...
...counterpart is Oxford-taught William Tucker, also 30, who switched from painting to sculpture after seeing Moore. Tucker strips the image to its irreducible core, colors his work to give clues to its form, but abstracts it to the point where it would connote almost anything or nothing. He agrees with King that "five years ago, sculpture was still nihilist and negative. Today it's about life, not death, and we're not afraid of words like beauty, joy and pleasure...
...over the Senate is a dull job. Why, I enjoy that"), then to speak to a meeting of students, next to the Statler Hilton to address a luncheon of the Advertising Federation of America, back to his office for an afternoon of paper work, and finally into bib and tucker for the White House dinner at which he was one of the honored guests...
...A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers in the bidding for Baylor End Larry Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants' sputtering ground attack. Notre Dame Quarterback John Huarte, who was being fought over by the A.F.L.'s New York Jets and the N.F.L.'s Philadelphia Eagles, was asked: "How does it feel...