Word: furcolos
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...Foster Furcolo, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor, was edging his way through the crowded lobby of Boston's Sheraton-Plaza Hotel with campaigning Lyndon Johnson fortnight ago, a Boston postman hailed him in friendly fashion. Cried he, loud and clear: "Hiya, Governor! Ya dope!" That evening when Furcolo appeared on a rally platform with Johnson, Furcolo got a hearty round of boos. Clearly, something was amiss in Democratic Boston. Indeed, for hapless Foster Furcolo, something was amiss all over his state, and last week it was amiss by a mile: Furcolo, 49, running in the primaries...
...Governor's defeat came from a combination of Tom O'Connor's razzledazzle campaign and Furcolo's own shabby record. Despite his party's longtime pledge against a state sales tax, Furcolo had repeatedly tried to get one passed. He feuded endlessly with the Democratic legislative majority, got into whiffing distance of a scandal involving an appointee to Massachusetts' Metropolitan District Commission. Jack Kennedy had refused to endorse him in Furcolo's unsuccessful 1954 senatorial race against Republican Leverett Saltonstall, and this time studiously avoided endorsing either Democrat in the primary...
...playwright: "Larry Sand," who based the work on a 1957 novel. Let George Do It, by "John Foster." As suspicions mounted about the play's authorship, investigation soon proved that Playwright Sand is Novelist Foster; both are, in fact, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor (John) Foster Furcolo, 49. Long since unmasked as the author of the novel, Furcolo was slightly perturbed to stand revealed, even before the first night, as, the playwright. Said he: "I didn't want the play produced under circumstances in which it would be praised by political friends and blasted by political enemies...
...Angeles TV newsmen staged another walkout-to "Pat" Brown's speakable anguish. "You people have absolutely no right to do this," he cried. "I am the Governor of the state of California, and I have things to say to the people of California." In Massachusetts, Governor Foster Furcolo once carried segregation so far as to answer the same question four times-first for the pencil newsmen and then for each of Boston's three commercial TV stations...
...strike order, effective immediately, came when the printers rejected, by a vote of 561-511, the publishers' proposal to arbitrate their offer of the same hourly wage increase accepted by ten other newspaper unions. Earlier, an all-day conference in Governor Furcolo's office failed to avert the strike...