Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first week as a presidential candidate, Kennedy shrewdly chose four university campuses as his major stops. The greetings he received ranged from unbridled ecstasy at the University of Kansas and Kansas State, to enthusiasm at Vanderbilt in Nashville, to friendly acceptance in the potentially hostile territory of the University of Al abama at Tuscaloosa. It was a double demonstration: Eugene McCarthy has no monopoly on collegiate affection; Kennedy can still...
...replacements, Nasser chose men mainly from the academic and professional groups, which in the past have played almost no role in his governments. The new Treasury Minister is a college dean, the Minister of Education a university rector. A Cairo bank director was named Minister of Supplies and an administrator at the Aswan High Dam put in charge of the Ministry of Irrigation. Most of the new appointees were educated in Western universities, but none were known for any particular political leaning...
...typical that when Charles Lindbergh made his first public appearance in a decade, he chose one of the nation's farthest reaches. Lindy, now 66, was in Juneau to address the Alaska legislature on a topic touching him deeply: the need to conserve the state's wildlife. The Lone Eagle argued that Alaska should do away with bounties on wolves, coyotes and seals, and make it illegal for hunters to shoot from airplanes or trucks. "Alaska is one of the key areas of the world," said he. "But with extreme changes taking place, the people are in danger...
Another Dog's Bone. Bobby Kennedy's entry had McCarthy supporters furious. Growled Actor Newman: "It's a shame Kennedy chose to take a free ride on McCarthy's back." Bobby was called a "claim jumper" and a "cow-bird." Said a student: "Hawks are bad enough. We don't need chickens." Commented New Hampshire Attorney Eugene S. Daniell Jr.: "It is something like trying to steal another dog's bone." Pulitzer-prizewinning Historian Barbara Tuchman (The Guns of August), whose daughter Jessica worked for McCarthy, fired off a telegram accusing Bobby of "cynicism...
...national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...