Word: comers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another comer on the Tory front bench is Christopher Soames, Winston Churchill's son-in-law, who moved up from Agriculture to replace troublesome Peter Thorneycroft as shadow Defense Minister. Thorneycroft, whose wildly expensive projects for military aircraft had proved embarrassing to Sir Alec, was reassigned to shadow the Home Office, where he will have less chance to get into mischief. The irascible and erratic Quintin Hogg, who had contested Sir Alec's nomination as Prime Minister in 1963, was another casualty: he was replaced as shadow Minister of Education and Science, henceforth assigned only to undefined "special...
...ready for almost anything that might happen in the 89th Congress. Strolling among the desks, Albert sized up and greeted the neophytes. "Hi, how are you getting along?" he asked, extending his hand. "Come by and see me if I can help you in any way." One eager new comer asked when he could make a speech. Albert replied briskly: "When you feel ready and have something to say. Beyond that, there are no holds barred...
Rhode Island Republican John Chafee warned the legislature that state spending may run as much as $10 million above revenues in 1965, called for "a year of restraint." Republican Chafee, who won a fairly spectacular ticket-splitting victory amidst the Democratic sweep and is being watched as a Republican comer, faces a new test; in the past, he managed to cope with a narrowly Democratic legislature through his veto power, but now both houses have Democratic majorities large enough to override...
...return, Andreas ("my eagle," the Premier calls him) soon emerged as a real comer in Greek politics, able, ambitious and his father's son. Too much so, the opposition decided, and even his friends had occasion to agree. Like George, a savvy politician given to silvery doubletalk, Andreas played all sides of a question when it suited him. He accepted an invitation to attend a conference of nonaligned nations, then did not go. As the "Minister to the Premier"-his father's right-hand man-he moved in on other Cabinet members, virtually running the Greek economy...
Boiled Red. A somewhat less sure comer-througher is Napoleon Solo, hero of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. This la bored acronym stands for United Network Command for Law Enforcement, or good guys. Solo (played by Robert Vaughn) is set to battle weekly against the malevolent members of THRUSH, which stands for bads and is an international organization "with no allegiance to any country or ideal." Last week THRUSH was trying to assassinate the Premier of a new African nation, who was visiting a nuclear chemical plant near Washington. Napoleon Solo and a female companion (Patricia Crowley) in a spangled evening...