Word: backers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Square is the right's latest answer to the left. Its chief financial backer is Patrick Frawley Jr., 44, who is board chairman of Eversharp, and a veteran right-wing crusader. Last fall he brought out his first publication, Twin Circle, a conservative Catholic weekly. His more recent venture is edited by Ed Butler, 34, a Schick public relations man who once debated Lee Harvey Oswald on the subject of Cuba-an encounter that was preserved on tape and has been made into a recording...
...from the Kennedys' bone-crushing approach to Ohio in 1960, when they virtually forced Governor Mike Di Salle to stand aside as a favorite son so that Jack Kennedy could have the field to himself. Di Salle cooperated and, despite his hurt feelings, is a Kennedy backer today...
Though the post of President is largely ceremonial, Gomulka needs a loyal supporter there. By putting in Spychalski, he also managed to thwart those who would have liked to see Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz, 56, another Gomulka backer, shifted to the ceremonial post, where his moderating influence on the government would be neutralized. Into Spychalski's place as Defense Minister, Gomulka managed to put another supporter. He was Wojciech Jaruzelski, 44, the Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff. Aware of the factional struggle, Jaruzelski immediately appointed three new vice ministers to offset the anti-Gomulka cast...
...ludicrous bickering-to the point where two Ronald Reagan supporters were contending for places on the Johnson slate-a roster of presidential supporters was finally formed. McCarthy, as elsewhere, enjoys support from many old Stevensonians and New Lefters, but Kennedy may attract some of them. Bobby's loudest backer is Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. Facing just one opponent, an absentee Johnson would doubtless be in serious trouble. But, as in Oregon, he stands a good chance of winning if both Kennedy and McCarthy remain in the contest...
...diary. She "borrowed" a key in order to rifle the hotel room of the chief U.S. negotiator; in the meantime, she wrote, the Bolivian police visited hers. When it looked as if the U.S. consortium might get the diary, Michéle offered $400,000, though her backer had no intention of paying that much. The Bolivians, she reports, were not fooled but were happy to see the price go up. Or at least they were until possible lawsuits by Che's family drove off all bidders, and the Bolivians were left with the diary and no money...