Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...
...gauge the humanist season in Russia in the spring of 1962, the editors sent in Correspondent James Bell, a Kansan who has reported for TIME for 17 years in Chicago, New York, Beirut, Hong Kong and Johannesburg, is now bureau chief in Bonn. Bell immediately found that it is much easier to see people than when he was last in Moscow in 1956, and that there is far less fear and red tape. He felt that he was not restricted in any way; the only slight hitch came when neither of his interpreters wanted to be seen talking...
Died. Andrew Frank Schoeppel, 67, plain-spoken Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas who climbed local and state political rungs to the governorship in 1942, moved up to Capitol Hill in 1948, amassed an isolationist record that often put him at odds with Fellow Kansan Dwight Eisenhower; of cancer; at the Navy hospital in Bethesda...
...anyone seemed a sure bet to represent the U.S. in swimming at the Olympics in Rome, a sad-faced Kansan named Jeff Farrell, 23, was the man. The greatest U.S. sprinter by consent and by competition, Farrell last month won the National A.A.U. championship by thrashing through the 100-meter freestyle in 54.8 sec., fastest time ever for an American. He looked a cinch to take the 100 meters, and to win a place on the 800-meter relay squad as well, at last week's Olympic trials in Detroit. But six days before the trials, Farrell underwent...
...Kansas last March, Kennedy told reporters that Governor George Docking stood "near the top" of any list of vice-presidential choices, and Kennedy pointedly declined to name any others who were as "outstanding" as the Kansan. Docking is still neutral, but he has a warm spot in his heart for Kennedy...