Word: mckinleyism
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...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...
Seeded a lowly eighth in what amounts to the world championship of amateur tennis, McKinley was considered America's sole hope to capture its first men's title in six years-and a forlorn hope at best. The last of the U.S. women was eliminated by the quarter-finals and, in a rare all-British final, dogged Angela Mortimer, 29, who has been after the title for nine years, edged towering (6 ft.) Christine Truman, 20, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. But before long, McKinley, his thick thighs churning madly and his heavy torso twisting to reach...
...quarterfinals, gyrating like a pinwheel, the Missouri Missile trounced Britain's Bobby Wilson, who earlier had upset top-seeded Neale Eraser of Australia. Said a shaken Wilson: "I have never played such a fantastically fast man." In the semifinals, McKinley overwhelmed Britain's Mike Sangster 6-4, 6-4, 8-6, thus becoming the first American to gain the finals since Tony Trabert...
...McKinley was not yet ready for Australia's canny, flame-haired Rod ("The Rocket") Laver, 22, seeded second. Laver was in danger of becoming Wimbledon's perennial bridesmaid: two years ago he lost the final to Peru's flashy Alex Olmedo, now a pro; last year Fraser beat him. This time Laver made it, and in only 55 minutes. With the score tied 3-3 in the first set, Laver broke through McKinley's service, won nine out of the next ten games for a commanding 6-3, 6-1 lead. He let up briefly...
Interpreting the victory as a sure sign that Laver had finally come of age, experts hurried to install him as the early favorite in the U.S. singles championships at Forest Hills in September. But they kept a sharp eye on Chuck McKinley, whose fiery spirit and hustling game could make him unbeatable when he reaches maturity...