Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counties in eleven states.* Predictably, many a Senator wanted to get into the act by amending the bill to include regional aid programs in his own home territory. Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy had a plan for New England, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan one for the Ozarks, and Michigan Democrat Patrick McNamara one for the Upper Great Lakes area. Arguing that such additions would smother the original Appalachia plan and promising that President Johnson would soon send other regional programs to Congress, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield managed to dissuade the Senators from offering their amendments. All, that is, except Robert Kennedy...
...Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet Foundation, an institution that promotes the use of a 44-character alphabet as an aid in teaching...
...Harold Wilson's Labor government could have received. Never before had a British Prime Minister been so brutally humiliated at so early a stage of a new government. Running for Parliament in a supposedly "safe" seat in the London constituency of Leyton, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, 57, was rejected by the voters -and lost his political life...
Kathleen, 13, held the baby. She's his eldest sister, and his godmother. Joseph Patrick III, 12, godfather and eldest brother, stood with his father Bobby and his six other brothers and sisters, while Monsignor William McCormack baptized Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Jostled by newsmen, TV cameras, and his share of 200 spectators, Cousin John-John felt that too many people had come. "I'm squashed," he said to his mother, Aunt Jackie. But one guest couldn't make it at all: the U.S. Ambassador in Saigon...
...change, the course must be altered more than once. Visser 't Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...