Word: clutchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hook. Johnson's unexpected presence on the Kennedy-Democratic ticket upset a basic assumption of Nixon's campaign strategy. To offset advantages that Kennedy's New England origin and Roman Catholicism will give him in the East, Nixon had hoped to win a clutch of electoral votes in the South, capturing at least the four states-Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-that Dwight Eisenhower carried in both 1952 and 1956. By dimming Nixon's prospects in the South, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket confronted him with a tough problem in electoral-vote arithmetic. Even if Nixon...
...bestseller charts, standing fifth last week, topped only by such formidably publicized competition as Elvis Is Back and The Sound of Music. In the eight weeks it has been on the market, the record has sold 132,000 copies.* Last week Newhart signed for a Midas-clutch of fall TV shows (including four Ed Sullivan appearances), and his nightclub fees have gone from $200 a week to $5,000 and more-a remarkably bullish development for an unknown comic who did his first nightclub act only three months ago and has so far made only one network TV appearance (with...
...Parliament husband, who named Aly as corespondent. His second marriage, to Rita Hayworth, involved a round-the-world courtship that was faithfully recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties, including Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine, Yvonne de Carlo, Lady Furness, Kim Novak, Merle Oberon and assorted French, Italian and Greek film stars. Said a marquise reminiscently: "Aly could handle more women simultaneously than most men can in a lifetime." He also understood the far more difficult...
...crawled across the balmy night - through the French Quarter and on toward St. Louis Cathedral. At the head of the parade, invited but unexpected, rode Louisiana's Governor Earl Long in his own convertible. Ole Earl, less than a year away from his revolving-door visits to a clutch of psychiatrists, beat time with his straw hat when he could hear the band. On the reviewing stand he showed up once more to chat with the visitor, once grabbed De Gaulle unceremoniously by the lapels - "something," as an aide put it, "that probably hasn't happened...
...contemporary Alexandria, the 2,000-year-old Egyptian seaport that he calls the "royal city and the anus mundi." Durrell delightedly wanders Alexandria's dust-tormented streets, blinks in its lemony sunlight, and pokes curiously through its stews, brothels, and hysteric festivals. Keeping him company is a clutch of God-haunted characters who live, love and die with tautly stretched minds...