Word: javitses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two-Year Mission. Much as he craves the chance, New York's senior Senator will not be seriously hurt if he never gets it. The important thing to him is to help the G.O.P.'s moderates and liberals hold their own for a few more years. By then, a whole...
"To start with," sniffed a Midwestern Republican, "he's from New York. Add to that his religion and his voting record, and it just wouldn't go down too well with a lot of people out here." Maybe Javits would offer the nation a new face for 1968, snorted arch...
George Romney evidently thinks so. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, with only Richard Nixon a serious rival, he has embraced Javits with a degree of ardor that some party pros consider unwise so early in the game. For, though Romney and Javits may look to...
? Her latest fad, shared by TIME Cover Artist Robert Vickrey, who painted her husband against a background of black and white squares, with an X in each white square to symbolize the ballot, Jack Javits' favorite art form.
The Compleat Senator. Audacious, perhaps. But preposterous? Not really. While Javits' faith might once have barred him even from fleeting consideration, the old religious and racial stigmata of U.S. politics were pretty well dissolved by John F. Kennedy's victory in 1960. In 1964, few voters were concerned that the...