Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pat Oliphant came to the Post from Australia at the end of a six-month search for a worthy successor to Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who left Denver for a better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted...
Stealing His Own Show. When Connally recalled the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in which he had been seriously wounded, Lyndon leaned forward, "He almost had it himself," he said. "One more inch and he'd have been dead." After California's Governor Pat Brown finished the "co-nominating" speech (it was the first time there had ever been two of them), the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again thundered from a giant pipe organ, and a 25-minute demonstration for Lyndon began. It had more noise (klaxons, foghorns, etc.) and color (yellow balloons, tiny parachutes with...
...want to thank you," said Bobby Kennedy to a breakfast audience of Kentucky delegates, "Jackie, Ethel, Pat, Eunice and Jean. Now there are only five or six of us left." Delegates blinked back tears...
Jacqueline Kennedy did not attend the convention itself, but she did spend half a day in Atlantic City. She arrived on the convention's final day, traveling on the Caroline along with the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, still weak from a kidney ailment, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford. Hundreds encircled her when she stepped out of a black Lincoln at the Deauville. Many in the crowd shouted: "Hi, Jackie!" Others, just seeing her, sobbed...
Grudging Consent. It was up to Makarios to 1) yield to the Turkish threat, 2) try to negotiate some concession in return for yielding, or 3) stand pat in the hope that Turkey was bluffing or would be dissuaded by the U.S. or through fear of Russian and Greek intervention...