Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hyannis Port Meeting. Operation Kennedy came into focus on a blustery day last November when Jack met with his top lieutenants in his family's summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass. Present were Ted Sorenson, 31, son of a onetime Republican attorney general of Nebraska, Kennedy's chief policy adviser; Springfield Politician Larry O'Brien, 42, Senate Investigators Kenneth O'Donnell, 35, and Bob Wallace, 38, and Brothers Bob Kennedy, 34, and Ted, 27, his seasoned forward observers; Lou Harris, 38, a specialist in conducting political polls...
...best advocates in each state, and the advance men-O'Brien, O'Donnell, Wallace, and Bob and Ted Kennedy -took to the road to recruit the local organizations. Based in Chicago, Raskin carried the Kennedy argument from Ohio to Oregon. At the time of the Hyannis Port meeting, there was a trusted lieutenant in every state, and the beginnings of a full-fledged organization in all of the key primary states-Wisconsin, Oregon, West Virginia, Nebraska, Indiana and New Hampshire...
...most devout followers are joined in the no-dues, no-assets Frostbite Yacht Club. The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e., Upholder of the Right of the Port Tack (to the skipper with the least regard for racing rules), Order of Sparta (to the racing committee that laid out the most uncomfortable course in the worst weather), Order of the Unwashed (provisional membership for those who have stayed out of the drink for five years, full membership...
...pages of gamy verses, supposedly in Burns's own handwriting and sewn into a copy of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the notorious anthology that the poet made to amuse his drinking companions). Max Arbuthnot, a goatish old Edinburgh lawyer with a fondness for '27 port and women of about the same vintage, undertakes to sell the smoldering and hitherto unknown holograph for his impoverished sister. He shows it to a fey, gloomy poet nicknamed Yacky Doo, who amuses himself alternately with a beckoning death wish and with Arbuthnot's married daughter...
Enter Lady Acton. As Waugh tells it, Knox was in depression toward the end (1939) of his Oxford chaplaincy. As a writer, he deplored what he referred to as two decades of potboiling. (Among other works he had churned out six popular detective novels to help foot the port-and-banana bills.) A glowing young convert, Lady Acton, and her husband gave Knox a psychological lift by offering him a writing retreat and private-chaplain status at their country estate, Aldenham. With this haven in view, Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From...