Word: gores
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President's Friend. Of all the circumstances that have affected his career, however, the luckiest was a college-age friendship with John F. Kennedy in the late 1930s, when Father Joe was U.S. Ambassador to London. While Harlech, then William David Ormsby Gore, was slogging through a series of unglamorous diplomatic jobs, his friend got elected President and specifically requested Ormsby Gore as Britain's Ambassador to Washington. "I trust David as I would my own Cabinet," said Kennedy-and he saw more of David than he did of most of his Cabinet...
...going to run for reelection, he suggested in a speech before the National Association of Broadcasters that TV had played a role in that decision: "I understand far better than some of my severe and intolerant critics will admit, my own shortcomings as a communicator." Then, hinting that the gore on the home screen was a major cause of the public opposition to his Viet Nam policy, he said that TV seemed "better suited to convey the actions of conflict than to dramatizing the words that the leaders use in trying to end the conflict...
Those rumors were buzzing again about Jackie Kennedy and Britain's Lord Harlech, now that he will presumably be coming to the U.S. more often. Harlech announced that he will send his 15-year-old daughter, Alice Ormsby-Gore, to Manhattan's Dalton School for the coming spring term. Alice will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle...
...Unlike nature, the American public adores a vacuum," says a character in Weekend. The thesis will certainly be tested by the fate of Gore Vidal's new Broadway comedy about a presidential hopeful. Vidal is capable of springy, sophisticated political humor, as he demonstrated in The Best Man (1960); but this time the jokes are either juvenile or senile. Most of the characters are as appealing as wads of wet Kleenex, and the story line is about as amusing as the Congressional Record...
...While Gore admits that he "treasures" his seat in the Senate, he seems to keep his importance in perspective. When Master Gill introduced him to a Leverett House audience as a "wise, humane, and dedicated legislator," he smiled at the hyperbole. But the audience accepted it, and they suspected that...