Word: frontiersmen
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...Washington cocktail parties, wavy-haired Steve Smith breaks them up with impersonations of Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He is about the most graceful dancer of all the New Frontiersmen. On the golf course, he shoots in the low 80s. At 35, he has the youthful good looks of one of those mayor-for-a-day teenagers. He is also John Kennedy's brother-in-law, and a pretty tough politician in his own right...
...Doubt. When asked about the rumors, deep-dyed New Frontiersmen deny that there is any substance to them. A White House aide protests that "there is no better man in this country" than Rusk. Bobby Kennedy recently called the reports that he was about to take over the State Department "completely ridiculous." In February President Kennedy told his press conference that he had the "highest confidence" in Rusk. Last week, speaking to a group of young Foreign Service men in the White House garden, the President assured them that "in spite of what you read, we love the State Department...
...week sent to the Congress a message devoted entirely to aid for the aged. Its recommendations ranged from tax benefits to increased employment opportunity. But among 36 separate proposals, it was plain that the Administration plans to bring its biggest guns to bear on behalf of the program New Frontiersmen figure has the heftiest political wallop: medical care for the aged under social security...
...know because I walked with her. Miss Sears entertained me for dinner that evening, and I took her to the theater. Miss Sears knows her age better than I do, but she was then in her 40s at least, and could probably outwalk the New Frontiersmen today...
When the show business guests broke the don't-tell rule, some New Frontiersmen expected a tremor of presidential wrath. But no: a White House aide put out the word that "the President is not upset about the story." Like many ordinary citizens, John and Jackie Kennedy look at show business personalities through star-struck eyes, judge them by more lenient standards than those applied to lesser folk...