Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Also among those voting were the three Dutch Reformed Churches, at least some of whose representatives backed it. Later the Dutch Reformed Churches found it necessary to clarify their stand. The smallest of the three churches-Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk with over 200,000 members-rejected the resolution and stood pat for total segregation. The two largest-the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerks of Cape and Transvaal, with a combined membership of more than 1,200,000-insisted as before that "a policy of differentiation can be defended from the Christian point of view," but then it cautiously suggested that black Africans...
When he first went to California, Day declared that he was through with politics, but soon changed his mind. He became a backer of Governor-to-be Edmund ("Pat") Brown, earned an appointment to the finance committee of the Democratic State Central Committee, helped form Democratic Associates, a committee of conservative Democrats who sponsor business-minded candidates for office. Day is articulate and abrupt, an effortlessly efficient manager. No mossback, Day manages to preserve the respect (if not the adoration) of both right and left in California's mixed-up politics...
Nixon's most perplexing political problem in California is whether or not to run for Governor in 1962 against Democratic Incumbent Pat Brown. Brown at the moment appears vulnerable, and if Nixon were to contest and beat him, it would certainly increase Nixon's 1964 presidential chances. But a loss to Brown would surely be the end of the Nixon road: Is the gain worth the big risk? Some Nixon advisers work on another thesis: come 1964, Kennedy may be riding a high crest of popularity. Nixon is still young. If 1964 looks unpromising for a Republican candidate...
...Lloyd Nolan and Robert Young. On the Democratic side, Sinatra's Clan (mercifully kept out of public sight most of the time) had a brocade-vested interest in the election because of Actor Peter Lawford's marriage to John Kennedy's sister, Pat. The Clan is now buffing its cuff links and ordering gowns for the inaugural ball...
...Chronicle. By the time he quit to go to Collier's in 1955, he had made a name for himself by stories exposing prison conditions and breaking up a municipal bond racket, and by helping to solve a murder. On the side, he worked for California Democratic Politicians Pat Brown and Richard P. Graves, served as Adlai Stevenson's California press-relations chief during the 1952 campaign...