Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bits of sound but less valuable data) in hopes of misleading Moscow or gaining enemy information himself. According to Deane, Blake might well have consented to the 1961 trial to maintain the illusion that British authorities thought he was working for the Kremlin, when in fact he remained a loyal British public servant all the while. Thus Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs could have been engineered by British intelligence...
...trial in Cape Town last week. He was Dimitrio Tsafendas, the 48-year-old parliamentary messenger who stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death before the eyes of scores of horrified witnesses in the House of Assembly on Sept. 6. Many of Verwoerd's loyal followers bitterly demanded the vengeance of the gallows. They did not get it. After three days of testimony by four psychiatrists, Supreme Court Justice Andries Beyers ruled that Tsafendas was insane and ordered him to be detained in prison indefinitely...
Giving & Getting. Next day the President sheathed some of his barbs. Lunching on Capitol Hill with 70 Senators, Johnson expressed pride in "the quality" of "my loyal opposition," allowed after all that maybe the press had not done so badly by him either. "I've not taken the prize about the mean things they said about Presidents," he told the Senators. "I've read the things they said about Jefferson and Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy...
Making of a Soph. Most effective of all, Gilligan was the first to announce the news of every federal financial grant or industrial contract of benefit to his constituency, whether he had anything to do with it or not. As a loyal supporter of Lyndon Johnson and one of those Democratic freshmen that Johnson would like to make sophomores, Gilligan had plenty to report. Some items: a $750 million defense contract for a local plant, $4.7 million for a housing project, $285,000 to help convert the old Union Station into a museum. For a number of such boons...
...magnate Leonard K. Firestone, Schick Razor president Patrick J. Frawley, former CIA chief John McCone (now a millionaire San Marino resident), and Henry Salvatori, co-chairman of Reagan's finance committee and member of Project Alert and the Anti-Communist Voters League. Reagan's father-in-law, Chicago neurosurgeon Loyal Davis, has also contributed heavily, and recruited support among right-wing friends...