Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORTS: CAMPAIGN AMERICAN STYLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Can an almost unknown candidate become a potential winner in eight months? Jay McMullen and Eric Sevareid zoom in on "the new politics," to show how public relations, advertising and other image makers can "create" a politician-in this case, Sol Wachtler, now a New York State Supreme Court judge. Last November, he became a manufactured but very real threat to New York's Nassau County Executive incumbent, Eugene Nickerson...
...might just make it. For while Robert Francis Kennedy is succeeding Lyndon Baines Johnson as the nation's most controversial politician, while his complexities and contradictions are the subject of passionate debate, he is also proving that many somebodies out there like him enough to vote for him. Last week, following up his victories in the Indiana and Washington, D.C., Democratic primaries, Kennedy scored a smashing success in Nebraska...
...seen Kennedy on the Indian reservations of Arizona or Idaho, no one who has seen him in the stinking hovels of Appalachia, no one who has seen him take the hand of a starving Negro child in the Mississippi Delta, accuses him of acting. Neither he nor any other politician could be that good an actor...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...
...highly successful Ambassador to Washington under John Kennedy. In Britain, however, Harlech is increasingly drawing attention as a man of versatile talents who is making his mark on British life and business. Harlech is already Britain's national film censor and rates as a potentially influential Tory politician. Recently, he took on a multimillion-dollar private venture as the chief executive of a new commercial-television consortium, which begins programming next week with a Special by two of its other stockholders, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor...