Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every word and move, Nelson Rockefeller was acting as though 1960 were already here-and by week's end any lingering doubts that he would play an active part in G.O.P. presidential politics next year had all but vanished. At a Corning press conference, he carefully refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things...
...chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that I'd be more interested in how he would rate me as his.'' Glowed Brown...
...Kingfish, a Louisiana legend as living tyrant and assassinated martyr. Earl Long hated his place in Huey's shade. To prove himself a better man, he merely proved himself a wilder one. In his role as a man of the people, he casually cleaned between his toes at press conferences. As a political fighter, he once sank his teeth into an opponent's throat. He billed himself as "Ole Earl," and. if he never became the national figure that Huey unquestionably was, he nonetheless kept Louisiana tightly under his thumb. That is, until recently, when he determined...
...Foretaste. Behind this startling about-face stretched a recent history of unaccustomed vacillation. Fearful that popular Socialist Carlo Schmid might win the presidential elections scheduled for July 1, Christian Democrat Adenauer three months ago tried to press his own party's presidential nomination on pudgy, cigar-chomping Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the "engineer of the German economic miracle." When Erhard, with the support of Christian Democratic backbenchers, refused to let himself be kicked upstairs, it marked the first successful defiance of Adenauer in his own party...
Abhorred Cutaways. The next day King Baudouin again broke with the past by holding Belgium's first royal press conference. As more than 100 reporters munched cookies, sipped champagne, and smoked the King's own crested cigarettes, Baudouin moved affably among them, freely offered heretical opinions and answered questions. Of U.S. newsmen he said: "They establish instant, familiar relations with their important guests, which is. you will admit, far different from our traditions, so I had to adapt myself quickly." Were Americans materialistic? "I found them idealistic." What about court protocol? 'I abhor cutaways. They should...