Word: bostonianism
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Last year the Administration barred dates from traveling on the Band bus to away football games, reportedly because a proper Bostonian, feminine variety, was alarmed that her daughter had spend the night traveling with unruly bands-men. Early this fall the Band was warned about its jibes at the Radcliffe House system, apparently because some stuffy Corporation member thought them in poor taste...
Speaker Rayburn's incurable illness gave inevitable rise to the question of his successor. The odds-on choice: Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, 69, a craggy Bostonian who has been Democratic floor leader for 17 years, longer than any other man, and who served as Speaker pro tern during Rayburn's absence in the closing weeks of the past session...
...seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from the P-38 and the Constellation to the Polaris missile, also furnished the U.S. with its most famed cold war intelligence tool...
...Rayburn's chief lieutenant, gaunt John McCormack, 69, has made little secret of his hope that some day he will follow Mr. Sam to the speakership. Whether the White House shares the same hope is a matter for debate. An up-from-poverty Bostonian, McCormack for years ran the Democratic Party in Massachusetts as his private constituency until, in 1956, rising young Senator John Kennedy smoothly took over. Swallowing that defeat, McCormack has publicly avowed his support for Kennedy ever since-but there are Democrats who think that the anger of "The Archbishop" (Roman Catholic McCormack's cloakroom...
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...