Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the deepening autumnal landscape of the upper Middle West, the northern Rockies and the Far West soared the White House caravan of three sleek 707s (Kennedy's Air Force One, a backup plane and a press plane). Wherever the "Conservation Tour" set down, folks seemed a bit awed-and more than a bit puzzled over why all the fuss. They should have known. Kennedy was looking forward to next year's elections. It was no coincidence that in 1960 Kennedy lost eight of the eleven states he visited last week. It was even less of a coincidence...
...Macmillan's critics had hoped. In a post-Denning TV attack on the government, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson rehashed the weary charge that the Tories have debased public morality. As for the public, most Britons were so happily absorbed in Denning's brisk, chatty account of upper-crust sinning that many TV sets stayed dark...
...upper stages of the moon rockets will burn liquid hydrogen, and the rocket manufacturers who work with the stuff claim that they will soon have it under control. But no hydrogen-burning engine has yet flown, and skeptics abound who believe that this tricky and touchy fuel will cause disastrous difficulties before it is tamed...
...sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The fragile centerpiece of the upper jaw was flanked by massive cheekbones and a baboon brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John Foster Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently...
...Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "The president of the Hasty Pudding Club." » Hitler: "Incongruities ran up and down the man. Hitler's massive brow ridge was strikingly out of proportion to the sunken upper jaw which the little mustache was inadequate to coax out. His nose was crudely hacked out, unfinished, a vulgar proboscis...