Word: nebraska
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Hyannis Port Meeting. Operation Kennedy came into focus on a blustery day last November when Jack met with his top lieutenants in his family's summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass. Present were Ted Sorenson, 31, son of a onetime Republican attorney general of Nebraska, Kennedy's chief policy adviser; Springfield Politician Larry O'Brien, 42, Senate Investigators Kenneth O'Donnell, 35, and Bob Wallace, 38, and Brothers Bob Kennedy, 34, and Ted, 27, his seasoned forward observers; Lou Harris, 38, a specialist in conducting political polls...
Three days later, in the Kennedy family's Convair, Jack and handsome Wife Jackie flew out to Milwaukee to make the official announcement, also confirm previous plans to enter Nebraska's nonbinding primary. Plain-spoken as always, Kennedy startled reporters by pointing out that his "principal adversary" in the big race was not Humphrey but Texas' Lyndon Johnson, already credited with control of some 350 Southern delegates. Kennedy twitted Johnson as well as Missouri's Stuart Symington for refusing to meet him in the primaries. They remain safely on the side lines, he charged, "hoping...
...Basic Ones. A stiff-collared man of headmasterly mien, Carl Hansen was born in Wolbach, Neb. (pop. 442), graduated from the University of Nebraska, got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. As an English teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected...