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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Univac & Unity. By convention's end, many a delegate had the feeling that he had been whipsawecf by a Univac in a button-down collar. But the Kennedy organization, now renowned for its attention to detail, instantly set about patching up the bruises. Johnson pep-talked a bunch of Negro leaders; Kennedy mollified the liberals by appointing Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles to be his agents at White House briefings on foreign affairs (but Ike himself said he would give classified information to nobody but Kennedy or Johnson). Other folks were reminded that, come to think of it, F.D.R...
...wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite son, who withdrew to support Kennedy, warned a pack of restless Iowa delegates: "You go for Stevenson, and you're dead." Husked back one delegate: "You're looking at a bunch of corpses." Final count from Iowa: 21½ votes for Kennedy, 1½ for Loveless, 3 scattered...
...Actors' Studio, but equally esteemed by many-Irene practiced with awesome intensity. Often she phoned fellow actors and routed them out of bed to practice scenes with her at 6 a.m. She was so oblivious to everything but acting that when one fellow student brought her a bunch of white grapes, she set them on a table in her apartment, next noticed them eight months later when the friend returned and exclaimed...
...under and was swept downstream. Behind him, scrambling for footholds or handholds, the entire line was washed into deep water. Some panicked. By the time Boykowycz regained his footing and helped other counselors drag survivors ashore, six scouts had drowned. But their absence was not noted until the bedraggled bunch had been assembled on the shore for roll call...
...educated at Stanford ('56), Reynolds ("the runt of the litter") and Shane ("our sex symbol") at nearby Menlo College of Business Administration ('57 and '56). Until they came together as a trio in 1957 at San Francisco's Purple Onion, they were, says Guard. "a bunch of wild hairs pointing in all directions." At Stanford, Guard-belying his present Groton look-had earned a reputation as a sort of stubble-bearded prebeatnik who was heading nowhere except way out. Reynolds, after graduation from Menlo College, had dedicated his energies to tennis. Shane, who only half-jokingly...