Word: haplessness
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...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 for the Democratic senatorial nomination, got trounced, bounced, stomped and whomped by 35-year-old, crew-cut Springfield Mayor Thomas J. O'Connor...
...where their voices were heard and their influence felt. Thanks to Hammarskjold's scrupulous insistence on using African, and not big-power, troops wherever possible in the Congo, the Africans recognized that the U.N. so far has kept the Congo from becoming, as Spain had once been, the hapless cockpit for a battle between giant powers. Put that way, most Africans were inclined to choose...
When 60-year-old Economist Hayato Ikeda succeeded hapless Nobusuke Kishi as Premier of Japan three weeks ago, a hopeful gleam lit up Peking's eyes. Though Ikeda, of course, was avowedly pro-American, he had once expressed enthusiasm for a revival of Japanese trade with China. Peking thought a little buttering up might...
...play was California's hapless Governor Pat Brown, who finally, on convention eve, openly endorsed Jack Kennedy. But Johnson had long since conceded that the Kennedys had Pat Brown hog-tied. As it has in many another convention, the real make-or-break power focused on Pennsylvania's 81 votes, presided over by Governor David Leo Lawrence, a tough, old-line boss who could make his influence stick if he wanted to. Dave Lawrence's heart be longed to Adlai Stevenson. Early in the game his mind took him toward Symington because he thought that Jack Kennedy's Catholicism would...
Jordan's Crown Prince Mohammed, 20, madcap brother of worldly and fairly wise King Hussein, who is four years older tooled through the crowded streets of Amman with his aide in his car and bowled over a hapless pedestrian. A hostile mob converged on Mohammed's royal presence. Somebody in the car started shooting, killed at least one, winged several others. Mohammed, in a bad version of a Middle Eastern western, then fled to his brother's palace. Hussein, brought close to the ignition point by his brother's antics, rushed off to condole the bereaved...