Word: well
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some politicos may get high blood pressure out of the 1960 campaign, but New York's U.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating, master of well-turned satire, is not likely to be one of them. His aim (with his own term going on through 1964) is to get some fun out of it-particularly at the Democrats' expense. Last week, in a speech before a Republican fund-raising dinner in Danbury, Conn., Republican Keating reviewed "the Democratic Astronautical Missile Program, familiarly known to those of us in the scientific world as DAMP," offered his own tongue-in-cheek countdown...
Anthony Carfano. alias "Little Augie" Pisano, 61, started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger...
...earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying Mercury capsule. Even beyond its military capabilities, the Valkyrie could well become the answer for commercial-transport operators, who already visualize Mach 3 passenger service in the future...
...accused cops produced a parade of witnesses who claimed to have been present at the questioning of McCuistion and King and to have seen no signs of brutality. But when Sergeant McCuistion asked the judge to question one of the witnesses more closely on timing, the judge coolly remarked: "Well, who would think of marking down the date anyway." Nor did the court make any attempt to call another of the arrested Americans, Staff Sergeant Joseph Proietti, who did not claim to have been beaten himself but who last week wrote to his brother in New York...
...love you, Banda, dear," his critics hooted, "because you change from year to year." Yet Banda's talent for political survival was so astonishing that a cartoonist once pictured him as a grinning cat, leaning on his own sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...