Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnesota's smart, purposeful Hubert Humphrey last week cleared up a home front problem that had plagued him for months. The problem: if his 1960 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination collapses, as his vice-presidency bid did in 1956, will he have time to campaign for re-election to the Senate? Solution: Humphrey got a flat commitment from Minnesota's ambitious but loyal Democrat-Farmer-Labor comrade, Governor Orville Freeman, that no D.F.L. competition for Humphrey's seat will be tolerated until Humphrey gives the word that the presidency situation is settled...
Fifteen people, including Menderes' Minister of Information and Chief of Cabinet, the managing director of the Turkish Airlines, and an M.P., died in the crash. But back home, near the mosque on the Golden Horn where Adnan Menderes worships, the throats of 200 sheep were cut in gratitude that Menderes was among the ten survivors...
King with thankful tears, and Corsican officials toasted the occasion in champagne. At week's end Mohammed V flew on to Madagascar, confident that Morocco's squabbling politicians would not seize on his absence to stir trouble back home, hopeful that his symbolic journey would remind them of the unity his people once shared...
...London Sunday Pictorial ran a spicy series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound to have press coverage, and since the primary object is to get good public relations for Britain, newsmen...
...hotels helped the guests feel at home. At the top resorts, visitors with a yearning for a kosher dinner could get it-flown in frozen from Lou Siegel's Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill...