Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vapors. Ethel Kennedy, three months pregnant, takes a fall on the ice as she and Bobby skim a rink for the benefit of photographers and the skaters' vote. Abigail McCarthy totters out of a sickbed to stump for Gene. Happy Rockefeller endures scores of bone-crushing handshakes daily. Pat Nixon makes her millionth airport arrival, to beam and greet the faithful. Only Muriel Humphrey, recuperating from an operation, has been spared...
ROSIE'S WALK, by Pat Hutchins (Macmillan; $3.95). Rosie the hen is out for a walk and doesn't realize the fox is stalking her. But the gods look after the innocent, and Rosie unwittingly leads the sly villain into one pratfall after another. With 14 bold pictures and only 32 words, Pat Hutchins has produced a broadly humorous book for the very young...
...polls tempt candidates to be popular rather than right. Yet in a democracy, there is always a conflict between responsiveness and responsibility. And quite often the public is far more alert to the need for new policies than are self-justifying politicians, who may be loath to alter stand-pat positions. So for all the flaws and abuses of present-day polls, they do stimulate the dialogue between the people and their elected officials...
...just like I do." By this reckoning, Robert Kennedy is the spoiled dynast, reclaiming the White House as a legacy from the man he regards as a usurper. Yet to many who have worked closely with him, Bobby is like Jack, pragmatic and perceptive, tempered by history. Says Urbanologist Pat Moynihan: "Much has been given him and taken from him in life, and somehow he has been enlarged by both experiences...
...affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block in the affiliation plan is that Calvin Coolidge and Portia would name only a minority of the trustees of the new board. "But our trustees just don't want to relinquish power," says Coolidge student body president Pat Vinti of Chelmsford...