Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed: he felt that he had to live up to his speaking commitment and, further, that he had to speak out on civil rights. Last week he did both with auspicious political results...
...Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...
...Kennedy paused, and for a brief, desperate moment there was more silence. Then Kennedy quickly added: "And now I challenge the Republican chairman to tell us where he stands on Eisenhower and Nixon!" The crowd came to its feet, alive, roaring and stomping its approval: Jack Kennedy had won it by his own display of courage and by turning all good Democrats against the odious Republicans. He was still a long, hard way from the Democratic nomination, but he had broken through a major roadblock...
...other hand, Indian captain Tony Gittes is not expected to start at his regular fullback position, a knee injury reportedly intervening. Thus, Jack Zipes and Mitch Engle, with Malin, will probably comprise Dartmouth's last line of defense...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all sharply observed by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...