Word: helluva
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...Helluva Thing. If the U.S. got into a war under such conditions, asked one Southeast Asian official with bitter memories of Dienbienphu, "would the marines be prepared to stay in the jungles five, six or ten years?" Admitting that "this is a helluva thing for a military man to say," one of the U.S.'s top soldiers declared himself in favor of "political adjustment" rather than a showdown...
...Helluva Baby." Kennedy got right down to his pitch: he wanted top men for the costly top embassy jobs, and did not want to settle simply for amateurs with private means. Without changing the law, he wanted assurances that his choices could get financial help if they needed it. Unmoved, Rooney pointed up his familiar examples of embassy waste, got agreement from Kennedy that there was room for tightening...
...daily golf game (no player, Rooney penciled in the scores), later let his visitor sit in on private talks with Lyndon on overall congressional tactics. As a special treat, Rooney was even granted a peek at tiny John Fitzgerald Jr. (his impression: "I think he looked like a helluva baby...
...this hogwash about Kennedy cresting too soon, or how miraculous Nixon's surge in the last ten days was-or even what a helluva campaign Nixon ran-frankly pains me," said a prominent Republican in Nixon's home state of California last week. "After the performance he put on during the first two-thirds of the campaign, there was only one way for Nixon to move in the homestretch, and that was up." As politicians of all persuasions sifted the election results last week, most of them agreed on one thing: Dick Nixon came out of the Republican...
...Eisenhower plurality of 1,600,000 votes ebbed to a 1960 Nixon deficit of 400,000. "There is a feeling that the best effort was not put out here," said a top New York Republican who is no friend of Rockefeller's. "Nelson will have one helluva time getting re-elected Governor in 1962." The Rockefeller rebuttal: he had given 400 enthusiastic speeches for Nixon, campaigned so hard that he turned ashen with fatigue. Nixon himself held no grudges, believed that Rocky had gone all the way for him-at least after the famous Treaty of Fifth Avenue...