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Word: patly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Johnson's determination was startlingly real, Kennedy was still making yardage. California's Governor Pat Brown, whose delegation might well be the team that pushes Kennedy over the top, hinted last week that he might drop his favorite-son role at the end of the first ballot, or even sooner, and swing the majority of his 81 votes to Kennedy. Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, keeper of Hubert Humphrey's strength, admitted that his squad was rooting for Kennedy. Iowa Governor Herschel Loveless has already made up his mind to forgo a nomination as favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Unsolid South | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...work on a dramatic new research program. Bobby is the president but Sarge Shriver is the managing director of the foundation and each of the brothers and brothers-in-law is a member of the board, but the prime movers of the foundation come from the distaff side: Pat Lawford runs the West Coast operations, Eunice Shriver is in charge of the Midwest, and Jean Smith is responsible for the East Coast. Says Founder Joe Kennedy: "Everybody has a locality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...Kennedys and Mother Rose's family, the Fitzgeralds, came to Boston more than a century ago, in the great avalanche of immigration that followed the Irish potato famine. The families prospered, and both grandfathers, John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald and Patrick J. Kennedy, went into Democratic politics-Pat as a backstage oligarch, Honey Fitz as a frock-coated ham who could weep at will at a stranger's wake, made Sweet Adeline his theme song, served three terms in Congress and was a memorable mayor of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...Powers asked Joe Kennedy for his wife's services as a campaigner. "But she's a grandmother," he protested. "Yes, but she's beautiful, and she's the mother of a Congressman, and we need her," was the reply. Rose went to work, with Eunice, Pat and Jean, at the famous Boston tea parties, and the Clan Kennedy smashed Cabot Lodge and turned back the Eisenhower riptide by 70,000 votes. ("It was those damned tea parties," Lodge said afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...convention headquarters, getting ready for the all-important, last-minute dickering. Jack headed for Cape Cod for a week's rest before moving on to Los Angeles and his moment of truth. Joe and Rose will pitch camp in a mansion, rented for the duration of the convention. Pat Lawford, a resident Californian, will have a front-row seat on the convention floor as a member of the California delegation, but she may have to cast her first ballot for Governor Pat Brown, the favorite son. From their Chicago and Washington homes, the Shrivers and Smiths will bear down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pride of the Clan | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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