Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Best Man is Gore Vidal's behind-the-scenes melodrama about the in-fighting at a national political convention. A tantalizing game of who's who, peopled with characters who were composites of men in public life, the play bounced onto Broadway four years ago, timed for the 1960 elections. The 1964 movie version tries to be similarly topical, but the prototypes don't match any now around. Some of the dialogue still sizzles, but the effort to freshen it with references to integration only points up how out of date the Eisenhower-Nixon-Stevenson jokes...
...came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property, than any other robber who has ever lived in America or in the known world." The uprising was scheduled for July 4, 1835. But the slaves, as well as Murrell, talked too much. The plot was discovered, and Murrell went to prison for ten years. When...
...admits he would have gone along himself if he could have found a pair. Happy Rockefeller took young Jamie and Wendy Murphy to the Carnegie Hall concert-the first time she has been photographed with her children since her divorce and remarriage. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore invited the non-U foursome to join a reception at the embassy and, with Lady Ormsby Gore, escorted them down the long staircase to meet the assembled guests. When the door prize turned out to be a Beatle album, Ringo presented it to the winner with a cheerfully irreverent aside...
...Embarrassments. During the week-long debate, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore laid down the only blanket denunciation of the bill, claimed that it was "the embodiment of fiscal folly" and "unconscionable" in its tax reduction "for the already rich." Yet despite his vow to try to scuttle the bill, Gore's only victory was to tax Americans living abroad more heavily. Passed 47-41, his proposal would require U.S. citizens living overseas more than three years to pay full tax on all income over $6,000; they now enjoy an annual $35,000 exemption. Those abroad 17 out of each...
...other four negative votes were those of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, Republicans John J. Williams of Delaware, Carl Curtis of Nebraska and Wallace Bennett of Utah...