Word: zephyrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speaker. And until death silenced his oratorical thunder in 1963, the Sooner State's Bob Kerr had no peer among the exalted unofficial overlords of the Senate. When Okla homa sent Fred Roy Harris to sit in Kerr's Senate seat, it was like a zephyr taking over from a monsoon. Or so it was assumed...
...friend recalls how, when Johnson was a Congressman during World War II, he informed Cook Zephyr Wright that he was bringing some important people home for a steak dinner. Unable to scrape up enough red ration stamps for steak, Zephyr fretfully asked Nellie Connally, wife of Texas' Governor John Connally, who was then a naval officer, what she should tell Johnson. "Nellie said to tell him that he's just like everybody else," said the friend. "Zephyr thought a moment and then said, 'Well, Mrs. Connally, you know he is like everybody else, and I know...
...Vista-Domed Zephyr is so scheduled that it affords a better daylight glimpse of scenery than any other transcontinental U.S. train. The westbound passenger leaves Chicago in midafternoon, sleeps his way across the Nebraska plains, spends the next day traveling through the fir forests and deep gorges of the Colorado Rockies, sleeps the second night as the train rolls through the Nevada desert, wakes up on the final morning in California's breathtaking Feather River Canyon. En route, the train serves good, moderately priced food in dining cars that sport vases of fresh carnations at every table. Not surprisingly...
...bespeaks something significant about the U.S. railroad-passenger system that such a train could lose money -which it does. Western Pacific expects to drop $560,000 on the Zephyr this year, largely because of rising labor and maintenance costs. Conceding that the train "imposes a substantial economic burden on Western Pacific," the ICC nonetheless expressed optimism that the financial picture may gradually improve. One possibility: giving Western Pacific an increased share of the revenues collected jointly by the Zephyr's three operating railroads...
Protagonist of all this dubious effort is a middle-aged account executive, Eddie Anderson, who was born Evangelos Topouzoglou. A would-be Tolstoy reduced to pushing Zephyr cigarettes for an advertising agency, Eddie also moonlights as Edward Arness, writer of hatchet jobs for slick magazines. Anderson-Topouzoglou-Arness is trapped in a Los Angeles "Spanish Renaissance ranch house" with a patient wife, a confused teen-age daughter, a supply of Picassos, tabs from the liquor store, and his mate's meddling analyst. "Asleep in the dell of respectability," he awakes with a whoop after making it with Gwen Hunt...