Word: adlai
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...right to risk this one. God knows Imus can sell a book, and he directs his scorn mostly at phonies. He bored in on her only once, when he "wondered" if she and Adlai Stevenson did more than discuss international affairs late into the night when they were both staying at the U.S. embassy in London in 1965 and he left his tie and glasses in her room. Imus later admitted he wanted to ask outright "if they'd had sex" but held back because "she's something like 80." In any event, she blithely told him he would just...
...area to support Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass) and Congressional candidate James P. McGovern, Clinton became the first chief executive to speak in Fall River since Harry S. Truman visited while campaigning for Adlai Stevenson...
...remember the chaos of picking a running mate at the very last minute: Adlai Stevenson in 1956 throwing the decision open to the convention, with the multiballot fight between John Kennedy, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. And the night in 1980 when we waited for Reagan to announce that he had chosen former President Ford, only to learn that the deal had collapsed at the last minute...
...restaurant enjoyed visits from notables such as Henry A. Kissinger '50, members of the Kennedy family, Adlai Stevenson, the Rockefellers and the prime minister of Egypt...
When a racehorse appeared, Carter got the owner to sign. When TIME ran a photo of a basset hound, Carter went to a kennel and took a paw print. In 1958, when seven Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, turned up on the cover together, Carter got to all of them. Harry Truman signed three times, giving Carter good-humored hell for having built his collection on "such a prejudiced, pragmatic and purblind publication as TIME...