Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip to Connecticut was an enlightening one. "On the way home one girl said 'politician isn't a dirty word any more,'" Sims said...
Another former cover subject (he has appeared there twice) is France's Andre Malraux, art historian, revolutionary, novelist, flyer, archaeologist, Resistance hero, politician-and now De Gaulle's culture commissar. Fresh from his gala at the White House with the Kennedys, Malraux in Manhattan had some eloquent words to say on the subject of mass culture. Even the New York Times, which yields to no one in its readiness to print long texts of politicians' dull speeches, missed this lively one, which we quote from extensively in Modern Living...
...Mutual Insurance Company of Hartford, he barely missed the gubernatorial nomination in 1958. To those who suggested that he try for the Senate when Bush bowed out, Alsop replied with a quip: "There are enough Alsops in Washington now." Edwin H. May Jr., 37, a wavy-haired, hardheaded politician who was state Republican chairman from 1958 until last November. A basketball captain at Wesleyan University and former president of the Connecticut Junior Chamber of Commerce, he was elected to Congress at 32, defeated two years later, and is now an insurance agent. He considers himself an "Eisenhower Republican," recalls with...
...letter writer neatly summed up Pusey in the Crimson: "His great flaw-and this is what all the criticism reduces to-is that he is neither a politician nor a showman. President Pusey does not dramatize his actions; he is just an honest man trying to steer this university in the right direction...
...especially minimized the chances of Motor Registrar Clement Riley, calling him "just another politician, colorless and undistinguished." As for the other candidates, Howe referred to them as "reputable, possibly, defensible, perhaps...