Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Esquire, Playwright Gore Vidal, a dilettante politician, concedes re-election in 1964 to President Kennedy, then hands 1968 to Brother Bobby (over Nelson Rockefeller). With that out of the way, Vidal, whose stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss, is also Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, lets Bobby have it. "There are flaws in Bobby's person hard to disguise," he writes, with no intent to disguise them. "For one thing, it will take a public relations genius to make him appear lovable. His obvious characteristics are energy, vindictiveness, and a simple-mindedness about human motives which may yet bring him down...
...newts doing the same thing. Now love-making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David Archibald Gore, 52. the eighth Earl and the tenth Baronet of Arran, stopped watching the telly, polished off the whisky and soda that, he says, lubricates his pen. hitched up his pajamas, and threw another log on the fire...
...have suggested as a meeting place the Hyde Park underpass, and as weapons motor cars." Then, in a spirit of charity, he re-edited "piddling" to "dull," and the international crisis eased. British names endlessly amuse him. perhaps because he himself is known as "Boofy" and sometimes as "Bonkers" Gore. "One of the oldest families in England is called Bastard," he wrote. "That must take quite a lot of living down. Moreover, it might easily lead to confusion. 'My mother was a Bastard,' though true, would be not only misleading, but seemingly disrespectful...
...readers, there are those who still believe that there is no Earl of Arran, citing as evidence the total surrealism of his prose. But he is genuine enough. His titles go back three centuries to 1662. when Charles II conferred a baronetcy on Sir Arthur Gore of County Mayo, an Irish landholder (360,000 acres). Boofy succeeded to the family titles unexpectedly; both his father, who held them, and his elder brother, who would have got them, died in the same year...
...current series of U.S. underground tests to improve their chances of success. Last week Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko and Veteran Geneva Negotiator Semyon K. Tsarapkin were closeted in Washington with U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Chief William C. Foster and British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore...