Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hacks could be forgiven for never having heard of Lochinvar or Childe Roland. But they should have known from his record that John Lindsay was no dilettante but an accomplished and courageous politician. He had been a superb trial attorney, so good that he had received glowing praise from Justice Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert...
...into office on its shoulders. But one suspects that his much-talked-about political future will be more likely to materialize if--and probably only if--his mentor Jacob Javits steps down in 1968 and gallantly offers him his Senate seat. Whether that transcends the bounds of what one politician will do for another...
Stock Gag. Lindsay's major opponent, Democrat Abraham David Beame, 59, is a diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.), Jewish bookkeeper and longtime machine politician who became comptroller under Wagner. Bland and cliche-inclined, Beame droned on and on about "sound fiscal policy," no matter how glassy-eyed his audiences became. He had one indefatigable campaign gag: "I don't see eye to eye with Lindsay," he chuckles, "physically, philosophically or politically." Beame's candidate for city council president is Irish Catholic Frank O'Connor, 56, able district attorney in Queens, who is considered a hot possibility...
People are always underrating Ludwig Erhard. Many were sure that he was not enough of a politician to carry his Christian Democratic Union to victory in last month's elections. When Erhard won overwhelmingly, doubters predicted humiliating defeat for him in the intricate task of forming a new Cabinet. The Gummilöwe (Rubber Lion) would surely knuckle under to Bonn's wily professional politicians in the scramble for ministerial seats...
...Charles Dilke (Charles D. Gray) is an eminent Liberal Party politician with excellent prospects of entering Gladstone's Cabinet. He is also a man with an indecorous sexual past. A young Mrs. Crawford (Sarah Badel), anxious to free herself from a disastrous marriage, arms her impotent husband with the information that she has not only committed adultery with Dilke but has also been his partner in more orgiastic antics. Though possibly innocent of wrongdoing with Mrs. Crawford, Sir Charles dare not defend his name, since he is guilty of a previous liaison with her mother (Coral Browne). The Crawford...