Word: politicians
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Kentucky. A onetime ambassador to India and U.S. delegate to the U.N., Republican John Sherman Cooper, 59, has his stronghold in the eastern Kentucky of miners, moonshiners and McCoys. After an Ivy League education (Yale, Harvard Law), he spent 25 years paying off debts left by his politician father. In and out of the Senate since 1946, strapping Baptist Cooper is one of his party's most distinguished liberals, an ardent supporter of foreign aid and civil rights...
Rhode Island. The son of an Italian immigrant who operated a popular eatery in Lakewood, John Anthony Notte Jr., 51, was a college baseball star, a World War II naval officer in the Mediterranean and an up-from-the-wards politician who made good. A dapper, well-tailored gladhander, Democrat Notte has been so busy with his own long-range campaign for the governorship that his primary opponent accused him of neglecting his duties as lieutenant governor. A run-of-the-mill liberal, Notte is rated as a political bantamweight by neutrals and many Democrats...
...impeachment-because he failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed by the Senate. The nation is beginning to feel the effect of a stabilized economy, and only a foolish politician would annoy the voters...
...Brien, conferring in subdued tones with little knots of reporters and looking the image of a politician, explained that Nixon's edge in Illinois (which he had just obtained) was not disturbing, because Mayor Richard Daley had 200 late-counting Cook County precincts in reserve. A little later, when Daley threw in 100 of these and Kennedy regained a 20,000 vote lead, a few report betrayed their leanings by cheering. "Thank God for the bosses," said...
...that now faces Kennedy is different from (though not unrelated to) the one he has just so successfully completed. In the last several months, with the skill of the born politician, he has impressed his attractive personality on enough voters to win election as President of the United States. Now, with the skill of the statesman, he must lead the nation through what he himself has described as a difficult and dangerous time...