Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside, John Connally was quiet and calm in his pain as surgeons prepared to operate. His aide, Bill Stinson, blurted, "How did it happen?" Said Connally: "I don't know...
...received wide support from Harvard Faculty members in the 1960 campaign. Amid great publicity, he brought a number of them into his Administration. But Kennedy conferred great power upon only one Harvard figure--McGeorge Bundy, a Republican who had been only a quiet Kennedy supporter in the campaign. And Kennedy never won from the intellectuals the deep committment they gave to Adlai Stevenson...
...Merry-Go-Round. Giving good, and sometimes superb, parties is the most important thing in Nicole Alphand's life. It sounds like a frivolous occupation, but her husband often gets more done in ten minutes of quiet conversation at one of Nicole's dinners than in a day of shuffling papers. For in Washington the dinner table is merely an after-hours extension of the office desk, and at 5 p.m., when the lights wink off in thousands of offices all over town, the working day is only half over. Then the Senators and socialites, the diplomats...
There was some talk that she had wanted to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over the Adriatic Sea. But no written record of the wish could be found, and so Elsa Maxwell was buried in Hartsdale, N.Y., after a quiet Manhattan funeral. Only 100 gathered to say a final goodbye to the woman who had given thousands of parties for thousands of people, and few of the glittering names she had called "dear" and "darling" were on hand. One mourner there who didn't get much society-gossip-column attention was Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon. And to this...
...Plaza, is a kind of Metropolitan Musem for living canvases, where genteel singers, chiefly female. keep the blue-rinse and cufflinks crowd smoothly entertained through dinner, under a ceiling so high that the usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...