Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cruel Hoax." Still and all, Bill Miller entered 1964 as a politician without a visible political future. In 1962, he won re-election to Congress by a scant 5,702 votes out of 139,710 cast, and the prospects for this year were worse. Among other things, he could expect little help from Governor Rockefeller's state organization, since he and Rocky had been at odds off and on for a long time. He therefore announced that he would retire from Congress and return to his law practice in Buffalo...
...Senator Dirksen's nimble leap aboard the Goldwater bandwagon [July 10] is a sad exercise in a politician's descent from statesmanship. We are fortunate that he cannot take back the civil rights bill and the test ban treaty even as he forfeits our confidence and trust...
...give the ticket a Northeastern tinge, a Catholic, an orator with a gift for tough-talking gab, a clean-cut looking 50-year-old with a handsome wife and four attractive chil dren who would be an asset in anybody's campaign. But he is a relatively unknown politician who is not even standing for re-election this year from his upstate New York congressional district...
...including most of the principal characters of his novels, are closely drawn from his family, his acquaintances, his ancestors. His great-grandfather William Cuthbert Falkner (the novelist added the 'u') was a Confederate colonel and a fiery leader of irregular cavalry; he later turned railroad builder and politician, killed two men in gun fights, was himself finally shot dead in the street by a former business partner. In each larger-than-life detail he has long been recognized as the model for Faulkner's Colonel John Sartoris, progenitor of the Sartoris family, whose family legends, falling fortunes...
...Newspaper." The Examiner's editorial policy is set in New York, where Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. has displayed a preference neither for Goldwater nor for Scranton but for Henry Cabot Lodge: "Don't be surprised if many delegates turn to the handsome and experienced politician-diplomat...