Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tremendous. Far greater interest focused on the selection of Rhode Island's Senator John Pastore, 57, as the convention's temporary chairman and keynoter. Pastore, a natty, mustachioed little guy (5 ft. 4 in.), is an outspoken liberal who earned Lyndon's respect and friendship as one of Majority Leader Johnson's most dependable floor managers. "That Johnny Pastore," Lyndon liked to say, "he's tremendous; sometimes I think he can do anything...
...cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] is a beautiful job-the clearest, fairest, most concise explanation of Faulkner's philosophy and purpose in life that I have ever read. We were proud here at Random House to be his publisher, and I personally considered his friendship a compliment beyond measure. Incidentally, every one of Faulkner's books is now either back in print-for good-or in the course of production...
...model of a young conservative-in dress, speech, bearing and political philosophy. As a Goldwater Senate aide who later took on the thankless task of arranging campaign schedules for a campaigner with a notable tendency toward last-minute cancellations, Burch earned both Goldwater's professional respect and personal friendship. "Nobody," says Arizona Republican Representative John J. Rhodes, "knows Barry better." That fact will be of major importance, for Goldwater has served notice he is determined to take a personal hand in streamlining and steering the committee...
...Thorez had deserted from the French Army and spent the last years of World War II in Moscow. When De Gaulle signed his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow in 1944 (as he recalled in his memoirs), Stalin said: "If I were in your place, I would not put Thorez in prison," adding with one of his cynical smiles, "At least not right away...
...Prospect. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano said that the Tunisian settlement would open "a new era of cooperation between the Holy See and the Tunisian government," and that Rome had agreed to certain sacrifices "in a spirit of friendship toward a friendly people, with cordial esteem for the values of a rising nation." There was less joy in Tunisia. "Will we have Mass this Sunday?" one priest at the cathedral asked. "We don't know. But I do know this: the extent of the takeover has shocked Catholics here." They face the prospect of seeing their churches...