Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buttonholed passers-by on Saigon sidewalks, the pint-sized Vietnamese officer in green fatigues could have been Nelson Rockefeller campaigning in the New Hampshire primary. He shook hands, introduced himself, asked, "Have you any suggestions about how we can do a better job for Viet Nam?" The politician was none other than South Viet Nam's strongman of the hour, Major General Nguyen Khanh, 36. Almost desperately, he was striving for the support necessary to safeguard his successful military coup...
...politician in the family is Arnulfo Arias, 64, Harmodio's younger brother and a Harvard-educated coffee planter. By all accounts, he is the man to beat in the May 10 election. Twice elected...
...lady has adopted the most ancient professional politician's technique of occupying the middle ground, this time the wide-open space between Rockefeller and Goldwater. In towns where Goldwater bluntly advocated air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion, Mrs. Smith announces she would have provided cover or not attempted the Cuban landing at all. Where Goldwater proposed every conceivably frightful means to get the missiles out of Cuba, Senator Smith more mildly suggests she would "never have lifted the blockade quarantine until on-sight inspection had been allowed...
...early 1940s, a U.S. Senate committee declared Puerto Rico's problems "unsolvable." The Caribbean island had a rapidly expanding population, few natural resources, hardly any industry, and chronic unemployment that sometimes ran to one-third of the labor force. In 1942, a rising young politician named Luis Munoz Marin organized a self-help program called Operation Bootstrap; a few years later, as Governor, he invited U.S. companies south, offering them political stability plus wide tax advantages and a vast reservoir of eager-to-learn labor. Ever since, Puerto Rico's economy has been one long, steady success story...
Another leading Cambridge citizen entered the fray with a quick repartee Friday night. "The sycamores on Memorial Drive," Al Capp commented, would look a lot better with a politician hanging from each...