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...describes handing out cash-filled briefcases to politicians who would do his bidding and keeping a careful watch on the progress of his sons. "The old man even had a maid in Jack's Washington house who reported to him," O'Neill says. President Kennedy is portrayed as the kindliest member of that clan, willing to meet with a friend of O'Neill's who wanted to bid on a large construction job overseas even though the man had not been an early Kennedy supporter. But Robert Kennedy is depicted as ungracious and ruthless. "To me, he was a self...
...safe, nondenominational way to be wrong is to call a churchman "reverend" -which is an adjective rather than a noun, and is likely to bring a shudder from even the kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery...
Translation, Please. Late in the week, Macmillan rose in the General Assembly to outline his proposal for new technical studies of disarmament problems. His speech was a masterful display of the British parliamentary manner, inflicting heavy damage on an opponent in the kindliest possible manner. While Khrushchev scowled, Macmillan paid tribute to Dag Hammarskjold, then proceeded to deplore on behalf of "the peoples of the world" the collapse of the Paris summit last May. At that, Khrushchev slammed his fist on the table, shot his right arm into the air and bellowed raucously: "You send your planes over our country...
...decision has now been transferred from Mr. Eisenhower to the people. If it were merely a question of personal popularity, Mr. Eisenhower might now be elected by acclamation. But it is far more than that. Many persons who have the kindliest feelings toward him may experience misgivings about the wisdom of his willingness to continue a burden of office that involves risks for him and for the country as well. Others will think the risks worth taking because of the benefits of continuity in the Eisenhower policies...
...longer sure that all power corrupts, but there is no doubt it creates apprehension. Even the kindliest and most well intentioned of giants causes a certain amount of nervousness among its friends. This is hard on the giant. And the United States-having heard through the years the anxieties of its allies that it might declare war too soon or that it might not declare it soon enough; that it was too far removed from Communist armies to be able to take the Communist threat seriously or that it is now taking it so seriously in its own land that...