Word: bostonianism
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...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...
McGeorge Bundy, 41, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Bostonian Bundy's first claim to public attention came in 1948 when he helped write the memoirs of old friend Henry L. Stimson, for whom Bundy's father had worked in the War Department during World War II. Later he became the only Yaleman ever to serve as dean of arts and sciences at Harvard, was long best known in the Yard for his trenchant course on the U.S. in world politics. Bundy, a liberal Republican, admires the foreign policy views of his close friend...