Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
Whizzing through New England next day, the President touched on every issue that promises to figure heavily in the fall elections except inflation. At the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, where he picked up a Doctor of Civil Laws degree (his 32nd honorary degree), it was civil rights. Before the Navy League in Manchester, N.H., it was Viet Nam. The U.S. will stop bombing North Viet Nam, he said, if Hanoi quits sending troops south. But it is "the men in Hanoi," he added, "who hold the passkey to peace." At Battery Park in Burlington, Vt, with the crystal...
...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
...ever called Gengras a plodder. He became a whiz salesman of bottled cooking gas in his teens, graduated to cars, and rapidly built a chain of automobile dealerships stretching from Rhode Island to Long Island. Then he expanded into public transit in his home state and insurance on an international scale. Along the way, Gengras presciently fathered eleven children, five of whom will be eligible to vote the G.O.P. ticket in November...
...Javitses have three children: Joy, now 17 and a senior at Dalton School, who after graduating plans to spend this summer with her father in his two-bedroom apartment at 4000 Massachusetts Avenue as an unsalaried "intern" for Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell; Joshua, 16, a Riverdale Country School junior who will be going off to London for the summer with his mother; and Carla, 10, a precocious fifth-grader at Dalton...