Word: fino
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...feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts of a Notre Dame backfield: Lefkowitz, Fino and Gilhooley. The G.O.P. campaign, based mostly on the possibility that the Democrats will destroy themselves, has not yet gotten off the ground...
...G.O.P. search after Javits' withdrawal, the name of Paul Fino, 47, five-term Republican Congressman from the Democratic Bronx, was proposed. Sniffed one Republican: "Who the hell is Fino?" Also mentioned were: New York Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, 56, who has never run for important elective office; Representative John Lindsay, 39, an attractive, consistent vote getter from Manhattan's Silk Stocking District; and Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller, 45, youngest of Nelson Rockefeller's four brothers. But Whitney, Lindsay and David Rockefeller were all reluctant to make the attempt...
...Gardner, who, like many a lady before her, had trouble choosing between man and beast. But last week Spain was crawling with a new species of Anglo-American characters known, even among themselves, as bull bums. Before a bullfight, these happy eccentrics can usually be found tossing down a fino in the lobby of the leading hotel or paying respects as the matadors nervously squeeze into their tight pants and gilt jackets...
...serious student of English in vocabulary, Latin and Greek certainly were NOT the only non-scientific fields in the "olden-days", that time "wasted" on languages is simply a way of trying to be "fashionable." The English Dept. recommends and counts for concentration certain related courses in History, Philosophy, Fino Arts, and Social Relations. How much more leeway does one want? Notably lacking in the editorial was any acknowledgement of the very pronounced influence the Classics have had on English Literature...