Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000 voters of all religions, the Gallup poll gave Jack Kennedy some new answers to ponder. Findings...
...Jack Cabot is a Harvardman ('23) and Oxonian ('25), a good tennis and squash-rackets player, who tastefully collects art objects from around the world, and has a proper, frosty appearance. But the frost melts away when he smiles and stretches out a huge hand in greeting. He speaks five languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German), and in more than 30 years of U.S. diplomacy has led a fast-moving life in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Items...
...nesting ground of a formidable front runner named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Senator Kennedy met his majority leader at Boston's airport, later introduced him to 800 diners in the cream and gold Somerset Hotel ballroom, cagily saw him out of town again. Before the homefolk Jack took only one good-humored peck at Lyndon : "Some people refer to Senator Johnson as the next President of the United States, but I see no reason why he should take a demotion." Smiling broadly, Johnson bandied back. Said he: "I promise my backing to Jack Kennedy as a candidate for any office...
Nice Blend. At week's end, Johnson could rate his Northern foray a success. Massachusetts, of course, is Jack Kennedy's for as long as Kennedy wants it. Key-state Pennsylvania (more than 70 votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
...better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only for their owner. The prospectors who play at his tables, like gamblers everywhere, pay dearly for the occasional jack pot, and the round-the-clock entertainment...