Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship with Lyndon Johnson and his manful attempt to avoid the lassitude of his office, Humphrey inevitably found the vice-presidency frustrating and confining. "One of the most awkward offices ever created by the hand of man," he said once. "It is an unnatural role for an active politician...
...lack of a record promises to be no hindrance, since Trudeau will be going up against another relatively un tested politician: Tory Leader Robert Stanfield, 54, the onetime Premier of Nova Scotia who succeeded former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as party leader last September. Stanfield is cautious and reserved, but a proven vote getter and administrator who served an unprecedented four terms as Nova Scotia's Premier. In the few months since he assumed the Tory leadership, he has restructured and strengthened the party organization in Ottawa and the country's 264 election districts. Still, most Canadians feel...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...
Symbol of Revolt. Ironically, it was the violence of Martin Luther King's death rather than the nonviolence of his methods that ultimately broke the city's resistance. Loeb, 47, a wealthy Southern patrician-turned-politician, relented on the critical issue of union recognition only after the assassination and under concerted pressure from the White House (through Labor Under Secretary James Reynolds), civil rights and labor leaders, and his own increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat...
...Alabama Governor George Wallace. Stein said Gait agreed to take him to New Orleans only after Stein had agreed to sign a Wallace petition. Gait took him to the Wallace North Hollywood headquarters, and so well-known was Gait there that Stein presumed him to be some kind of politician. Wallace headquarters aides say that their files list no one named Gait...