Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Harry Truman sat out the Democratic Convention in Independence, Mo. having proclaimed it a "prearranged affair," rigged in favor of John F. Kennedy. What's more, said the 76-year-old Truman, Kennedy was not ready for the job yet. But Old Politician Truman knows when it is time for all good men to come to the aid of their party...
...United States is just starting, but they will give us the help we need," said Harvard-bound Christian Ohiri, 22. Ohiri's faith is not shared by Kenya's flashy young politician Tom Mboya, who says that the U.S. is "not applying itself realistically" to the problem of educating Africans. Visiting the U.S. to raise plane fare for 250 Kenyans who have scholarships to American colleges next fall, Mboya called on Candidate John F. Kennedy at Hyannisport and said: "What we need is a crash program to train thousands to man our new government...
Died. Philip Benjamin Perlman, 70, Maryland lawyer, newspaperman (onetime Baltimore Evening Sun city editor and prank-playing crony of H. L. Mencken) and Democratic politician, who from 1947 to 1952 as workhorse Solicitor General of the U.S. personally won an unprecedented 49 cases before the Supreme Court but lost his most famous one, defense of President Truman's 1952 seizure of the steel industry; of heart disease; in Washington. An energetic fighter for civil rights. Perlman was co-chairman of the Platform Committee at last month's Democratic Convention...
Ready to Die. With his flushed, seadog face, his poop-deck voice, his blunt, peppery language, Red Raborn scarcely seemed the type to tackle a job that called for a trained scientist. More important, Raborn was a driving organizer, a demon for efficiency and an able politician. He had done time in almost every branch of his service-aviation, destroyers, gunnery schools-and everywhere he was known as a man with a single-minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back...
...trained Chehab really long so badly for the Riviera? Fellow officers recalled that, as a general, he had more than once "resigned" to get his way. Now he seemed in no hurry to appoint Salam to the coveted premiership. And after last week's rousing demonstration, every Lebanese politician knew that, whoever the Premier and whoever the Cabinet members. Fuad Chehab had proved that he was the country's indispensable...