Word: politicians
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Style he had. He was born with it, and he displayed it at every stage of his life-as the heir to a savagely competitive spirit and a million-dollar trust fund from his father; as the wartime hero of PT109; as the student of power; as the driving politician who went from the House to the Senate to the White House. "Why do you want to be President?" he was asked in the summer of 1960. "Because that's where the power is," he replied...
...shrewd a businesswoman as she is a politician, Lady Bird has parlayed an inheritance of $67,000 and 2,900 acres of Alabama cotton and timber land into a radio-TV station in Austin, Texas, four cattle ranches and a bulging stock portfolio. Her estimated net worth is about $5,000,000, but she is thrifty enough to buy "seconds" in household linens. "She asks the price of everything," says a friend. "When the house needs repair work, she gets three estimates." Yet her most notable quality is her capacity for enjoyment. "I wouldn't trade this life...
Betancourt is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself, and Democratic Action's nomination has gone to his old friend and the party's president, Raul Leoni, 57, a somewhat aloof and colorless politician who nevertheless can be expected to follow Betancourt's programs. The race for second place could be close, with a slight edge given to the Social Christian Party (COPEI), led by Rafael Caldera, 47, an able and dynamic lawyer. The two parties already operate together as a coalition, are expected to win a controlling majority in Congress and a mandate to carry...
Opening to the Seine. For all his eccentric behavior, Sihanouk has also sometimes proved himself a shrewd politician. Since independence from France ten years ago, he has jailed home-grown Communists and wooed his red-hot young leftist critics into the government -while at the same time maintaining warm relations with Russia and Red China. Sihanouk last week performed another typically slippery gyration. Instead of rushing right into Peking's arms, he turned to his old colonial tutor, France, and asked her to help replace U.S. aid. Said the Prince: "For our country, liberated from the U.S. and which...
Died. Edward Joseph ("Knocko") McCormack, 67, Massachusetts politician, brother of U.S. House Speaker John McCormack, the burly (275 lbs.) younger son of Irish immigrants who for two decades dispensed political favors and jobs from his South Boston saloon, stage-managed family campaigns but failed last year to help his son Edward Jr. win the Democratic Senatorial nomination from Teddy; of cancer; in Boston...