Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President deserved "accolades as one of the most brilliant or imaginative of Presidents," but did not question his charm: "Few men in the decades of the republic have so captured the hearts, the trust and the faith of the people." The New York Times's senior pundit, Arthur Krock, took a balanced look back across the Eisenhower years and nodded qualified approval: "Whatever the flaws and errors of his rec ord, however much he could have bettered the great contemporary benefits it bestowed, lasting benefits they were...
Time magazine has built up an unfortunate reputation for innuendo--which is reinforced in the cover story this week. While the editors pat the New York Times' veteran Arthur Krock atop the head for being "the only ranking political pundit who is not yet wearing his campaign button on his lapel," they use a supposed profile of Sen. Kennedy to slip in several political low blows...
...solons to saloonkeepers, every wag had his political gag as the election moon waxed bright. The word around the Pentagon last week was that if Nelson Rockefeller believes the nation needs $3 billion more for defense, "why doesn't he write a check?" New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock figured that "the inter partisan confusion could now be resolved if the Democrats would nominate their favorite Republican, Rockefeller, and the Republicans their favorite Democrat, Lyndon Johnson." In the Senate, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy spotted the reason his favorite candidate, Hubert Humphrey, lost the West Virginia primary: "Hubert told...
...Strange & Incomprehensible." One widespread Western response to Khrushchev's attack on the President was to wonder whether Nikita was "going nuts," as the New York Daily News bluntly put it. "On this assumption," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "the West must be prepared to protect itself from the very special menace of a deranged operator of a destructive military machine...
Unfavorable Accents. The New York Times's veteran Arthur Krock, admitting that "this is only dope, but American politicians are incurably addicted to its use," passed on this consensus of Washington politicians...