Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand were former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, now describing himself as a "politician emeritus"; Los ing Presidential Nominees Tom Dewey, Dick Nixon and Barry Goldwater (the only other one still living, Alfred...
This year it looked as if Proporz might be upset. The conservative presidential candidate, suave ex-Chancellor Dr. Alfons Gorbach, 66, was a nationally known politician as well as a World War I hero with a prosthetic limb to prove it. The Socialists' lackluster Franz Jonas, 65, mayor of Vienna and a onetime Linotype operator, was not only unknown outside Vienna but had neither a university degree nor a "Herr Doktor" to his name. This inspired one comic to chortle: "Austria has a choice between a Holzbein [wooden leg] and a Holzkopf [wooden head...
...Everything. Who was all the shouting about? John Vliet (his mother's surname) Lindsay is certainly a most attractive politician. He is young-43. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and handsome, with a pleasant smile and a rapid tongue. He comes from a proper Manhattan family-his father was an investment banker-and he went to the right schools: St. Paul's,Yale, and Yale Law. As a Navy lieutenant, he came out of World War II with five battle stars. He has a showcase family, including wife Mary, three daughters and a five-year...
...action, not a verbose politician," burbled Moise Tshombe. Fairly bursting with pride, Tshombe recalled that when he became Premier last July, "nothing was working and three-fourths of the country was under rebel control." Today, he beamed, "order has returned, and now the elections are terminated. Now let us all together, every Congolese, roll up our sleeves and make the great Congo into a country of happiness and prosperity...
...districts, and in three of South Carolina's six districts. Although so far, pitifully few Negroes hold office in the South, there are some significant omens: at least two Southern U.S. Congressmen, one from Georgia and the other from Tennessee, owe their election to Negro votes; a Mississippi politician, thinking like many of his colleagues about the Negroes who will vote for the first time in 1966, contemplates running against a segregationist Congressman and explains his strategy simply: "I'd get the nigger vote." The cynicism of that view does not diminish its importance...