Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharing the Plunger. The most conspicuous greeter, as Kennedy arrived at California's Castle Air Force Base, was Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who needs all the help he can get from all the Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...
...Price of the Image. But guilt became a bitter pout when Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn's second husband once removed, arrived in town to bar Hollywood from the funeral. His quiet, classic plea for privacy extended even to Mrs. Pat Lawford, sister of President Kennedy and one of Marilyn's last close friends. When Marilyn's attorney complained that DiMaggio was keeping all her friends away, DiMaggio coldly answered: "If it weren't for those friends, she would still be alive." Only Peter Lawford publicly complained ("I'm shocked"), but Marilyn's movie friends, smarting...
Faced with his own opposition to capital punishment, and perhaps mindful of the harmful political effects of his vacillations in the Caryl Chessman case, Governor Pat Brown said he was "unable to find circumstances" to interfere with Ma Duncan's imminent execution...
...four-day pack trip along the 9,200-ft. timber line in the High Sierras rode California's Governor Pat Brown, 53 relaxing from the rigors of his campaign against G.O.P. Challenger Richard Nixon. What was the name of his rented chestnut mare? asked newsmen as the Governor and his troop of 21 fellow campers clopped off into the wilds. "Richard," replied Brown, never the one to let gender interfere with a wisecrack. "I intend to ride him hard. And that's what I'm going to be doing for the next three months." Poor Daisy...
Calvino's macabre heroes have the potential of powerful allegory, but Calvino weakens his stories by cluttering them with too many other symbolic characters, e.g., the good half of the viscount eventually shows up, and a pat ending is achieved when the two halves are rejoined. Still, there are passages almost worthy of Cervantes. A nun bemoans her sheltered life: "Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?" When two feudal armies clash...