Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the weekend, Major John Eisenhower, his wife and their three children arrived from Fort Belvoir, Va. for a family reunion at the farm-the last before the President, accompanied by the First Lady, departs for Geneva and next week's Parley at the Summit...
...Secret. Unlike Johnson, Clements makes a fetish of secrecy. Example: as usual, he recently kept his staff members uninformed about where he would be on a weekend trip out of Washington (Capitol Hill staffers deem it important to know where their bosses can be reached by telephone). But, just before climbing aboard his train, Clements thumbed an aide to his side, looked warily around to make certain there were no eavesdroppers in the vicinity, cupped his hamlike hand to his mouth and whispered conspiratorially: "Keep this to yourself, but in case of a real emergency...
Monitor (Sat. 8 a.m. to Sun. midnight, NBC). A marathon, catchall weekend show of music, drama, comedy...
...holiday weekend, Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson left the Mayflower hotel apartment of his friend and colleague, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George (who was recovering from bronchial trouble), and slipped behind the wheel of his blue Chrysler. He drove alone, through the stifling Washington heat, across the Potomac and 40 miles into Virginia to "Huntlands," the rolling estate of George Brown, Houston contractor and lavish contributor to Johnson's political campaigns. It was a trip from which Lyndon Johnson would return in a few hours-in an ambulance. He had suffered a coronary occlusion; doctors said...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...