Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid siege to the Mutual Broadcasting System, finally wangled credentials to cover the Democratic nominations in Los Angeles. "They simply threw me onto the Convention floor," says Lisa. She picked herself up quickly, nabbed 38 top Democrats for interviews. "Has anybody turned you down?'' asked California Governor Pat Brown admiringly as she herded him into a recording booth...
...California Republicans he invited for dinner one evening last week, Richard Nixon represented the host with the most. Polls showed that of all likely Republican candidates, Nixon would have the easiest time defeating Democrat Pat Brown in California's 1962 gubernatorial election. Painfully mauled in 1958, the California G.O.P. needed a ticket leader like Nixon, who boosted 22 new Republicans into Congress last November while narrowly losing the presidency. As they pulled their rattan chairs a little closer together in the Nixon playroom and sipped their cocktails, the visitors strained to hear whether their host would be willing...
...nine vegetables and fruit glace. They had, in effect, been turned down. But when they left the party, they took with them one faint but sweetly sounding if. If, promised Nixon, 60 days of political soundings left them still convinced that he was the only man who could beat Pat Brown, he would reconsider and run. But, added the host with the most, "my judgment will be the biggest factor in the final decision...
...publicity-conscious president of the National Broadcasting Co. for two years, Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver invented the TV "spectacular," was long on good ideas (the magazine format of Today and Monitor) but too short on high-Trendex programs. Eased out in 1956, Weaver stayed on the fringes of TV, in 1959 joined the McCann-Erickson advertising agency as boss of its international division. Last week, bouncing back to television, 52-year-old Pat Weaver was named president of M-E Productions, the radio and TV subsidiary of McCann's parent, Interpublic, Inc. His new job puts Weaver, long...
There is real drama late on election night, when Dick and Pat Nixon, struggling with their emotions, appear on TV and refuse to concede the election. (Viewing the scene from his Hyannisport headquarters, Kennedy silenced his grumbling staff with six words: "Why should he concede? I wouldn...