Word: forays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
Molly &the Babies. Yet Lyndon Johnson is a man of many characters and complex moods. While he found just the right touch in his speech on Europe, he achieved only bathos in his lone campaign foray into Newark, N.J. Pointedly failing even to shake hands with New York Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Frank O'Connor, who is in a tight race with Nelson Rockefeller, the President crossed the Hudson to boost New Jersey Senatorial Contender Warren Wilentz, who has little hope of defeating the incumbent liberal Republican, Clifford Case...
Strong Plants. As for Powell's political future, ironically he can only gain from his foray into the lions' den. Elected to his eleventh term in the House in 1964 by a 9-to-l margin, he has always been, in the eyes of his constituents, an audacious Daniel in the white man's Congress...
...dealings, a master charmer, a canny politician, greedy, and above all, always right in his purchases. Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, Sherman E. Lee of the Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately that of his museum-by the trophies brought back from the battlefields of back rooms, auction houses and dealer-wheelings from Ipswich to Istanbul...
...that mood of humorous humility that the President, following his serious words at Arco, last week regaled an audience at the University of Denver on everything from politics to foreign policy during his one-day, "nonpolitical" foray through Idaho, Colorado and Oklahoma...