Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Loneliness. As he armed himself for a long season of crisis, John Kennedy had notably changed from the zesty Bostonian who took the oath of office last January. From the start, Kennedy knew well that his job, carrying with it sole responsibility for decisions of imponderable magnitude, had forced every President before him into an unwanted, unique loneliness. Yet it was still a surprise that he had retreated into the isolation of power so early. A gregarious man with uncommon social charm, Kennedy has become steadily less and less available to old college and political pals. Once the most...
...twins-Hayley plays both-know nothing about each other; their parents separated when they were babies. Hayley the First is a demure Bostonian who lives with her mother (Maureen O'Hara); Hayley the Second is a rowdy Californian who ranches with her roughneck father (Brian Keith). The girls meet at camp, tumble to the situation, and switch places. At summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter...
...Washington, Harvardmen knew where to look for their next alumni association president, elected CIA Deputy Director Robert Amory Jr., 46. A tough-minded law professor at his alma mater ('36) and a veteran of Cambridge, Mass., politics as a member of the town school committee, the little-known Bostonian went to work in the planned obscurity of Dullesville in the '50s, left the limelight to his Brahmin Boswell brother, Cleveland (Who Killed Society?) Amory...
...carefully told the country beforehand, Kennedy's European rendezvous with history were not intended for strategic decision or diplomatic agreement. Instead, his mission was to take personal measure of the man De Gaulle and the man Khrushchev?and to let them take their measure of the young Bostonian who directs the most powerful nation on earth...
...Reminiscent of an old story remembered around Cambridge about an indignant proper Bostonian who complained that Harvard students were rowdies and urged President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell to lock the Yard gates. Lowell's polite reply: "Should I lock the students...