Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost as rightward-thinking as Goldwater. Both candidates hit hard at campus turmoil and stressed law and order. The result was a contest devoid of issues. With both men rigorously ruling out smear tactics, the question became more one of name than of name-calling. Yet while Barry Jr. bragged unabashedly of being the "elder son of the Senator from Arizona," he did devote 18-hour workdays campaigning to making it to Congress...
That has been Barry Jr.'s way ever since he graduated from Arizona State University in 1962 with a major in business administration and a harvest of wild oats. "He was a bright kid," recalls one professor. "But it would be asking too much of the boy to be a serious student when he had his father's name and those same good looks. And the girls were crazy about...
Playing Hard. Moving to California, Barry Jr. decided that it was time to settle down-up to a point. He started seven years ago as a $275-a-month stockbroker's clerk, progressed to a partnership that is now worth $80,000 a year. Girls, lithe and long-legged, are still wild about him, frequently decorating his three bedroom bachelor pad in Burbank. "I work hard and I play hard," Barry Jr. says. He pilots his own single-engined Bonanza, has sailed a yacht to Hawaii and Tahiti and keeps a brace of motorcycles for Mojave Desert hill climbing...
...reality foreign spies-the Nepalese decided that the foreign-exchange earnings and publicity were not worth the trouble. Last year, however, they changed their minds. One of the first groups of mountaineers to take advantage of the opportunity was an eleven-man American expedition headed by Boyd N. Everett Jr., 35, of New York City. The group's target: Dhaulagiri I, a rugged peak that soars 26,795 ft., the world's sixth highest mountain...
Intellectuals should learn to master the art of dissent within government, a problem that has greatly changed since the days of Thomas More and Machiavelli. James C. Thomson Jr., a former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes...