Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foray into national politics. It was Jack Kennedy's assassination that brought Lyndon Johnson to power. Bobby Kennedy's energetic campaign helped persuade many restive Americans that the old order might, after all, be redeemable. In the dying days of a Democratic Administration, the last of the clan rekindled a beacon of courage and change-one that should certainly brighten his party and the Senate and may yet achieve the full promise of a haunted dynasty...
Those Kennedy clan touch-football sessions were wild and woolly for their day. But the antics at Hickory Hill and Hyannisport now seem like a girls' fieldhockey jamboree compared with the mayhem on the greensward at Gracie Mansion when New York Mayor John Lindsay and his pals take the field. After the latest game, one aide had landed in the hospital with a broken hand and two others were hobbling around with badly swollen shins. And Hizzoner unscathed. In fact, despite striking teachers and recalcitrant policemen he was dressed up for a night out on the town with...
...archetypal moneybags-but hardly typical delegate-at either convention is Delaware Republican Reynolds du Pont, 50, one of the clan's richest members. After M.I.T., he had a go at the family firm, but quietly dropped out. Du Pont likes politics and yachts. He was elected state senator in 1958. In both 1964 and 1966, he managed syndicates of similarly bankrolled yachtsmen who tried unsuccessfully to win the right to defend the America's Cup with the twelve-meter American Eagle. This summer, though he is leader of the Republican-controlled state senate and also chairman...
...presidency, he can seek to carve out his own position in the next four or eight years whether the Democrats win or lose. And he can do it without allying himself now with either Hubert Humphrey, whose policies Bobby Kennedy attacked, or Eugene McCarthy, who is disliked by the clan...
When the sad news about the Argylls became known, angry Scots immediately announced a drive to save the historic regiment, and one of the first men to sign their petition was the Duke of Argyll, Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, a descendant of the unit's traditional officer clan. But unless Whitehall recants-and it seldom does-the Argylls played their swan song as they piped themselves out of Aden...