U.S. Administration In 'Hip’ Language

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 15

U.S. Administration In 'Hip’ Language

(M2. Press Associatton-CopyrigM) , NEW YORK, January 29. President Kennedy Is “The Hat” and the Cuban missile crisis the “sugar blues,” a/rording to the latest “hipster” language.

The President’s wife is “the Man’s Hat” and their two children, John Jun. and Carotine, ‘The Man’s crumb ousters.” The Secretary of State, Mr Deen Rusk, is “Tte Man’s man, a wig" and Mr Adlal Stevenson, Ambassador to the United Nations is “a tight wig, or nob, who preaches Sam’s sermon at woridtand.” This latest compilation of “hip” language appears in “Life” magazine this week, United Press International reports. It covers the first two years of the Kennedy Administration. The unusual report was written by a titan rilMtii, respectable business executive, RUiot Horne, the father of two children. “I think W to « beautiful word," Home said. "To be ’hip* to. to be aware of all the things around you, the gtr’’ things the ugly things.” natetefo Contribution n asked bow he would be Albert Einstein to

alk, Horne said: “The oa. walked in and laid the world out on a fraction.” When Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev •veotually meet at toe summit “the hipster will tote Me hat off, face birdland and say ‘Be cool.’ •'Qool am mean many fobßs." Horne said. “Be gooC be tough, be right. “If the two K’s can keep cool." 'he Mid hopefully, “things won’t get hot” Mr Kennedy’s clash with the United States steel industry last year is called "toe atari chorus.”

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In everyday English, this mesne that a domestic crisis began when the United States Steel Corporation announced a price increase. The President charges the increase is not necessary and attacks the industry at a televised press conference. The steel industry withdraws its increase but this action is followed by a plunge in stock market prices.