Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Publisher Otis Chandler's Los Angeles Times has long been the West's proud and prosperous voice of conservatism. President Philip Graham's Washington (D.C.) Post and Times Herald is a lively advocate of the New Frontier. Last week the two papers announced that they are pooling their talents to form the first new U.S. news service since World War II. The partnership is both curiously distant and distinctly promising...
Your description of the President's Yale address as having more style than substance sums up perfectly the New Frontier and the entire Kennedy clan. Also, I fear, the civilization that produced them...
...spiel. But while McNamara has effectively been shaking things up at the Pentagon, another man has effectively been soothing them down. He is Roswell L. Gilpatric, 55, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and by general agreement the most important No. 2 man in any department or agency of the New Frontier...
...little-known but influential group set up by the National Security Council to plan Government-wide programs to counter Khrushchev's threatened national "wars of liberation." Dry Toast. Away from the Pentagon, Gilpatric can more than hold his own in the in-group badinage of the New Frontier. At a recent party on his Maryland farm, Gilpatric welcomed Bobby and Ethel Kennedy with a toast, then declared: "We have a swimming pool here-only immersion in ours is not mandatory." With McNamara away last week, the Pentagon did not vibrate quite so obviously. but the pace of work...
...Lines and president of Wall Street's A. M. Kidder & Co., is still a very rich woman. She has the $13.5 million Bay left her before he died in 1955, is now married to wealthy Broker-Oilman C. Michael Paul, and cuts such a figure on the New Frontier that Jack and Jackie Kennedy spent Christmas at the Pauls' eight-bedroom Palm Beach mansion...