Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Francis Powers, the boy from Charlestown, is officially listed as a White House staff assistant-but that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter and joke teller. One reason for his value is that even amid the glitter of the nation's capital, he still remains a son of Charlestown. Says Dave casually: "It's the best White House I've ever worked...
...last it was time to move out. One Ranger began to twang out a tune on a captured Viet Cong guitar, and a companion did a twistlike jig, holding onto the bipod of his automatic rifle like a boy dancing with a broomstick. The bag for the day had been seven Viet Cong killed, eight prisoners, 53 suspect villagers arrested, seven rifles, more than 100 rounds of ammunition-and one guitar...
...Washington last week, Soviet Press Attaché Oleg Sokolov turned to his American luncheon companion and asked sourly: "Who's Kohler?" Sokolov knew perfectly well, since Foy David Kohler, 54, just named by President Kennedy to replace Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, has been at the center of East-West negotiations over Berlin-probably the knottiest, longest-standing tangle in the cold war. But if the Russian was simply expressing predictable skepticism, quite a few Americans were asking the same question about the man who is about to take over...
When it gets around to voting this week on a "new" medicare bill, the Senate will not have to gaze very hard to spy the familiar figure of a controversial companion...
Usually he is alone, brooding over the collapse of his financial empire (TIME, June 22) in the aftermath of Wall Street's Blue Monday skid. But last week Eddy had a companion-handsome, French-born Olivier Coquelin, 32. Coquelin is the manager of a Manhattan cafè society watering spot called Le Club, where Eddy, bedazzled by a "board of governors" that includes Noel Coward, Rex Harrison and the Duke of Bedford, was an eager member. Said the loyal Olivier: "I have come to see zat Eddee does not go to zee dogs...