Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acheson and James F. Byrnes-thus accounting for every living former President and Secretary of State. Dwight Eisenhower's last Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates is a member, as are A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, General Lucius D. Clay, former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, ex-Governor Pat Brown of California and retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
...support of old-line Democrat Mayor Shelley for the officially nonpartisan office, but Jack Morrison, 45, has split the party by winning the support of the liberal wing. A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, Morrison has held local and state party posts, including the San Francisco co-chairmanship of Pat Brown's successful 1962 campaign for Governor. His only major public office has been on the board of supervisors, to which he won election in 1961 and re-election in 1965. Alioto has consistently outpaced Morrison with his well-organized campaign machine and powerful financial backing...
...however, some hopeful signs. Volunteer Defense Corps units, a kind of local militia armed with bolt-action rifles, are taking up posts in remote villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over...
...shocked administration. "They all figured I was a bright, facile guy who just didn't understand," says Buckley. "So, en passant, I mentioned it to a publisher. He was patronizing, but liked my brashness and said go ahead." In July 1950, Buckley married a Vassar Girl, Pat Taylor; in September, after a "hedonistic summer," he sat down and "batted out" God and Man at Yale...
...auto and plane crashes, one of which led to his spectacular 24-day nightmare in a rubber raft in the Pacific in 1942. Unfortunately, Pilot Rickenbacker's prose does not fly; it won't even roll. The irascible old individualist makes his life sound dully plausible and pat...