Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When, some time in early 1962, Unruh picks up the speaker's gavel, he will take over a post that by the nature of its duties stands second only to the governorship in importance. And California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") "Brown, a political master of the hesitation waltz, should be no particular obstacle in the path of Unruh's drive for actual party power. Already Unruh is greeted far more warmly in John Kennedy's White House than Brown...
...Democratic Way. When Pat Brown ran for the governorship in 1958, Unruh was his effective campaign manager in Southern California; later, on the floor of the assembly, he was the man most responsible for the passage of Brown's first successful legislative program. His political manners are from a classic mold. He can be generous, even to Republicans. But when he is crossed, Unruh is merciless. As chairman of the assembly Ways & Means Committee, he once lectured the members: "This committee is run democratically and will continue to be-as long as the majority votes...
...Saratov Aero Club and was admitted to the Soviet air force's cadet academy at Orenburg. He graduated with top honors in 1957 and married a pretty medical graduate, Valentina Ivanovna. They have two children, both girls: Elena, 2, and Galya, one month. It was all so pat and proper and bourgeois that White Russian refugees from South America to Tyrone, Pa., recalling that Gagarin was the name of a princely family, felt free to claim Yuri as one of their own. But the suggestion that he was really a descendant of Russian nobility never quite rang true...
Star in the West. Still, many U.S. spacemen are growing weary of this pat excuse. They prefer to blame a longstanding failure of U.S. imagination. While he was still in Germany in the early 19405, Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun realized the possibility of producing satellites and saw plainly that they would have enormous propaganda value. When he came to the U.S. in 1945, he pleaded for "an American star, rising in the west" to impress the world. U.S. space enthusiasts took up his cry, but the U.S. Government was slow to give support...
...Pat is short for Patricia. Mama, as Pat still calls her, was expecting a girl...