Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disturbed police and social workers was that so much of the current juvenile rebellion took the form of violence for its own sake. In Los Angeles last week, Gene Klossmer, 87, was treating Mrs. Edith Sanford, 70, to a ride along the street in his slow (4 m.p.h.), three-wheel electric cart, when two teen-agers in a 1951 sedan drove up behind him, gleefully pushed the unsteady cart along until it overturned. The elderly riders suffered broken bones and numerous cuts. The two youths drove on-laughing-and showed no signs of remorse when they were arrested later...
...Gamble (20th Century-Fox) is a picture in which the central character is a truck, the story line is a dirt road, the scriptwriter (Irwin Shaw) runs out of gas, the actors (Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne) have no spark, the director (Richard Fleisher) falls asleep at the wheel, and the producer (Darryl Zanuck) is going downhill. The spectator can hardly be blamed for speeding to the nearest exit...
Discovering the best is the job of Bobby Kennedy and his deputy, Colorado's ex-All America Halfback Byron ("Whizzer") White. From Senators, Congressmen, judges, lawyers and party wheel horses, the Justice Department has so far received more than 1,300 nominations for the vacant judgeships. Some of the names were easily scratched off the list: a handful of Democratic bigwigs-including California's Governor Pat Brown-foolishly suggested their brothers and cousins. (One politician, whose relative was summarily turned down, taunted Kennedy with the comment: "Your brother got you your job." Bobby's answer: "Yeah...
Died. General Walter Bedell Smith, 65, the U.S.'s steely wheel horse in war and peace, Dwight D. Eisenhower's grand planner from 1942 to 1945, subsequently a State Department and CIA troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington (see THE NATION...
...world cholesterol-conscious with scores of monographs, weight-reducing clinics and diet-watching "Anti-Coronary Clubs"; from complications of diabetes; in New York City, where he was named the first Bureau of Nutrition director in 1949, continued to serve until last week although blind and restricted to a wheel chair since...