Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be hard up for news stories when you have to run another feature of an apparently endless series on the Kennedys...
...27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from...
...Playing Hard. Moving to California, Barry Jr. decided that it was time to settle down-up to a point. He started seven years ago as a $275-a-month stockbroker's clerk, progressed to a partnership that is now worth $80,000 a year. Girls, lithe and long-legged, are still wild about him, frequently decorating his three bedroom bachelor pad in Burbank. "I work hard and I play hard," Barry Jr. says. He pilots his own single-engined Bonanza, has sailed a yacht to Hawaii and Tahiti and keeps a brace of motorcycles for Mojave Desert hill climbing...
...diverse careers. To French politics he has brought the cultivation of a classics scholar (including 10,000 lines of French poetry that he can quote from memory), the logic of a legal expert and the savvy of a banker?all of which roles, without seeming to have prepared overly hard for them, he has played...
...strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...