Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the G.O.P. breach stepped John Davis Lodge, 58, brother of 1960 Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge. Eager for a political comeback, the former Congressman (1947-51), Governor (1951-55) and Eisenhower Ambassador to Spain (1955-61) announced his Senate candidacy. Lodge hopes to avenge his 3,200-vote loss to Ribicoff for the governorship...
...Juan is tougher and more intelligent than his amiable son, who does not seem eager for the throne, but Juan Carlos might be chosen simply because he is not controversial. Last week some saw significance in Franco's gift to Juan Carlos and his bride of the glittering little palace of Zarzuela, near Franco's own Pardo palace, for their Madrid residence. But even if Juan Carlos actually chooses to live there, he will not necessarily have a role in Spain's affairs. His studies are finished ; he could not very well hobnob with Franco...
...action had been popular in the nation. But not, it turned out, with our readers. A reader demanded to know whether the letters we selected to run correctly reflected the ratio of letters we received. When we noted that our mail ran 5 to 1 against Kennedy, an eager reader protested that to judge by the Letters column, readers were 8 to 1 against! Such adding-machine impartiality is not our criterion in picking publishable letters; if it were, we would be at the mercy of systematic letter-writing campaigns. We try in a general way to reflect...
Because Miss Blanding's lecture was a kind of private family talk, it went unreported until the Miscellany News poll caught the eager attention of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week the Trib, with other papers falling in line, played the story big, in recognition of the fact that women's-college presidents who dare to insist on old-fashioned chastity for their girls are fairly rare nowadays. Having won cheers from almost every Vassar parent, Miss Blanding was undaunted. Said she: "The girls wanted to know what the standards were. I told them...
Solitary Dissenter. For all their growing leeriness of the Kennedy Administration, businessmen were at least eager to see whether, in order to hold his noninflationary line. Kennedy would have to crack down on labor as hard as he had on Roger Blough...