Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speeches a year across the land?Bowles rolls his I's, manages to mention his personal experiences in high political jobs. He is also a prolific author (half a dozen books on politics and international affairs since 1954 ), magazine contributor, letter-to-the-editor writer, interview giver. To his benefit, Bowles is an intimate of most of the top candidates. The jacket of his latest book. The Coming Political Breakthrough, is alive with blurbs from Jack Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and even Harry Truman...
...fact, one of the many pleasures I enjoyed from our close friendship was the fringe benefit of sharing in the endless stream of invitations that he received to parties. There was always an ample surplus of good-looking girls. Victor married the second prettiest girl I know-a friend of my wife...
Colleagues & Artifacts. Some Johnson admirers in the Senate are already working for their candidate without the benefit of a formal announcement of his availability. Bob Byrd was yodeling for Johnson and against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain...
...from the Communist threat in Cuba (see HEMISPHERE) to highly technical details of East-West nuclear test-ban negotiations in Geneva, to the likely impact of U.S. weather satellite Tiros 1 on the legal status of outer space. To each question, Herter replied in measured, carefully framed sentences, without benefit of prepared statement...
...wonderful as De Gaulle thought. Even the left-wing press, while dutifully remembering Algeria and the French Abomb, generally agreed with the New Statesman's contention that the British public "recognizes that its old ally has two faces and is prepared to give De Gaulle the benefit of the doubt and concede that he represents the one which we admire and respect...