Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like bees around a queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path to the white marble Senate Caucus Room. Even...
...long a fortress of rock-ribbed conservatism, both have earned reputations as "liberals," have won broad labor support. Both prefer to ring bells and shake hands on street corners than to get up on the stump. Both are fiercely independent; e.g., Senator Smith denounced Joe McCarthy in his heyday, later bucked the Administration by voting against the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, last time ran with little support from Maine's Republican organization...
...those that survive, none set a higher tone than the great plantation houses of the Virginians. Perhaps the least known is James Madison's stately Montpelier, which is now a racehorse breeding farm owned by Marion duPont Scott (former wife of Actor Randolph Scott). In Montpelier's heyday there was no more festive scene than the dinner parties for 90, presided over by vivacious Dolly Madison, "a fine, portly, buxsom dame." Virginians not only maintained standards; they set them as well, as Frontiersman Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (opposite) proves. "Old Hickory" and his devoted, pipe-smoking Rachel...