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...children with him whenever he traveled out of town on business. In 1950, after an 18-month courtship, he married Loraine Diane Guyer, whom he had met on the ski slopes of Sun Valley. Percy has two children by his second marriage, and his family life strongly reflects his penchant for organization. The Percys live in a sprawling lakefront home in Kenilworth, north of Chicago. There is swimming in the family pool, which is enclosed in a special wing of the house. There are hymn singing ("We like to start the morning with a song"), Bible study, prayers, discussion periods...
There he won little distinction as a lawmaker; he has sponsored no significant legislation. But Miller did win a name as a party loyalist with a penchant for party organization, and as a good man to avoid in any debate. This reputation got him the chairmanship of the National Republican Committee, and he did a diligent job, traveling some 150,000 miles, delivering nearly 600 speeches, appearing on national television more than 100 times, and jabbing at the Democrats every inch of the way. He has called Adlai Stevenson "completely inept," castigated Averell Harriman as the man "who loused...
...former Rhodes scholar and Williams College professor of economics, Gordon in 1961 joined the Council of Economic Advisers, moved to Budget in 1962. He is attuned to Johnson's penchant for quick answers to questions, keeps on his desk a sheet of paper with the latest federal employment figures. From the time he arrives at work in his battered Renault till he leaves for home in suburban Maryland, Gordon is a prodigious worker; the 80-hour, seven-day week he put in last week is not unusual. Gordon likes to joke that Johnson has stopped calling him at midnight...
...friend, and even got his flying license after lessons from Old Pilot Goldwater. The youngest of Goldwater's top aides, Burch plunged into the thankless job of scheduling campaign appearances, aided Kitchel in a notable job of offending the fewest possible Republicans despite the candidate's disturbing penchant for last-minute cancellations...
...their own intrigue-steeped national histories make it easy for millions to doubt that Oswald did it alone. In Italy, where Julius Caesar got his and where Machiavelli elevated plotting to respectability, the only question is when the conspirators will be unmasked. Among Frenchmen, who have long had a penchant for ideological crime, the rumors went back to last year's arrest of Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn in the Soviet Union on spy charges. According to this account, the CIA had solemnly denied to Kennedy that Barghoorn was a CIA agent, but when the professor returned he told...