Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...register. One of his first important breakthroughs was to reach an accord with the Senate's Southern leadership. As a fire-breathing partisan of civil liberties, Humphrey was the natural enemy of the Southern bloc until, at the invitation of Louisiana's Russell Long (a Chevy Chase neighbor and an old acquaintance from his L.S.U. days), he actually sat down to lunch with a group of leading Southern Senators. To everyone's surprise, it turned out to be a completely cordial meeting. "We got to know each other as humans," Humphrey explains...
Franklin Roosevelt, who picked up the good-neighbor idea in his 1933 inaugural address, proposed an Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires three years later, and after his first re-election went (by cruiser) to open the meeting. F.D.R. breezed successfully through Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, fell speechless only once, when a newsman asked him in hesitant English to relate "a small moral anecdote for the edification of the young." From aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis, F.D.R. scribbled a hasty note to his wife: "You have been given a huge silver tea set by the Brazilian government, very old Brazilian...
...good neighbor policy is precipitated by Wally Troy, who treks from cabin to cabin explaining in third-base-coach fashion that "the game isn't over 'til the last fly is caught," and that "you got to give." By applying this world series weltanschauung to her own life, Miss McKenna persuades the young man to marry the girl, realizes that people count, and repays Wally by extricating him from a jam. All is saved; and SYMBOLICALLY (of course) the M on the neon MOTEL sign flashes back on; it had been off during the play...