Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooke's backers range from Henry Kissinger to black Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. But Tsongas has a popular supporter too: Senator Edward Kennedy. In the past, Kennedy has never actively helped Brooke's opponents. But sensing that Brooke is in serious trouble, Kennedy has taped TV commercials in behalf of Tsongas, who in turn backs Kennedy's national health insurance plan. If Brooke loses, he will have one small consolation: the Ethics Committee will probably call off its investigation. Otherwise, the probe will...
When they go up the banistered staircase to the second-floor library with its old books, dark red walls and white trim, the men in the diplomatic delegations take their coats off and settle elbow to elbow at a small round table. They are mindful that Andrew Jackson and later Abraham Lincoln used to sit in that room and debate American affairs with their hosts...
...elegant pale yellow structure over the years, Blair House has remained a place of hope. The original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis to urge peace in the Civil War. That spirit still stalks those...
...York lost Tom Seaver, Oakland couldn't keep Reggie Jackson, but Cincinnati is determined to hold on to Pete Rose. The Reds' star third baseman is scheduled to become a free agent on Nov. 3. To keep him in town, the city planning commission has drafted an ordinance designating Rose "an historic property." If the city council passes the ruling, there cannot be any "alteration to the exterior appearance of the property," including "the number 14 on the shirt and large lettering on the posterior of the shirt spelling out the word Rose." More important, there...
...have only one effect on an artist's career: they stop it. But they can do wonders for reputation. We might feel different about Van Gogh if, instead of shooting himself in the gut at 37, he had died full of age and honors in bed. The demand for Jackson Pollock's least scribble might be less fierce if a skidding car had not sent him the way of James Dean. And what of Mark Rothko, who killed himself with a razor and pills in 1970? In hindsight, death appeared to be the central image of Rothko's late, dark...