Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are plotting against your dad," Senator Harry S. Truman complained to his daughter Margaret back in 1944. "Every columnist prognosticator is trying to make him V.P. against his will. It is funny how some people would give a fortune to be as close as I am to it, and I don't want it." Her father's reason, revealed by Margaret in LIFE's excerpts from her upcoming biography, Harry S. Truman: "I'd rather not move in through the back door." Truman suspected that Franklin D. Roosevelt would not survive another term in office...
...little of all that. Columnist Marquis Childs was not exaggerating much when he described this presidential race as "one of the most unhappy campaigns in American history." The country's majority party was sundered. There was no real debate involved, for all the claims that it would be "the clearest choice in this century." The President scarcely campaigned at all, and the Democratic candidate, entangled in his early mistakes and misunderstandings, fell into a rhetoric of self-righteous moralism...
...worried about the days; it is only the nights," Henry Kissinger told Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber. According to her, that is why Henry the K. likes to spend evenings in the company of Jill St. John, Mario Thomas, Raquel Welch, Samantha Eggar, Sally Kellerman, et al. What bothers Kissinger is the ladies' motivations. "Is there no end to my naiveté?" he asked after discovering that one starlet was boasting about her dates with him. "I forget that they are actresses. They are only attracted to my power-but what happens when that power ends? They...
...Monitor has refused to carry ads for it. A manufacturer has declared that it encourages "ambition, attainment, leadership, exploration, excellence, growth, goals, imagination, courage, determination, loyalty, sharing, teaching, involvement and concern"?not to mention more aggressive salesmanship. Critics have variously classified it as Hinduism and Scientology. Recently, a columnist, dismissing the whole thing as "half-baked fantasy," offered its success as proof that America's brains are addled...
Like the Blitz. Israelis stationed overseas have come to feel like frontline combatants in what one Tel Aviv columnist calls "our new war of attrition." They are provided with government security suggestions that cover four pages. Embassies and consulates have been converted into veritable fortresses; in Manhattan, for instance, a potential visitor to the Israeli consulate not only has to pass a policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches...