Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roisman, a fastidious man who always kept a hairbrush and a box of Sen Sen in his violin case, was fond of detective novels and long walks. The gregarious Alexander frequently went off to organize a party, or a concert, of his own. Kroyt loved nothing better than a fishing trip. Mischa, the unflappable perfectionist, had a weakness for gambling parlors...
Before the men could leave, of course, there had to be speeches. Reagan's was mercifully brief, telling the men that the "last thing you need is a speech from me." But Reagan ended up with the rhetoric of a simpler kind of homecoming--welcoming "you valiant men"--and Sen. Smith drove it into the ground in her speech. After she was done, the proud little mayor of San Diego took ten minutes to tell the men how just really delighted his city was to host this happy reunion...
McCarthy requested time to think about it. He wondered about his Sen ate seat...
Nixon intends Robert Finch, his closest friend, to be the central figure in domestic policy as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch is a "moderate" Republican, just like his boss. But he gets along well with California's right-wing extremists. He directed U.S. Sen. George Murphy's campaign in 1964, and he ran comfortably on Ronald Reagan's ticker for Lieutenant-Governor. Perhaps both men have decided that the cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution...
...time, however, the NDC has been building a broad voalition of white middle class suburbanites, academicians, and students from the old McCarthy movement with progressive Negroes (or less militant blacks, if you will), the Chicano (Mexican-American) community in the Southwest, leftish labour members, and Indians from the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's supporters. It is a highly decentralized operation--mostly on a state level, but often on a community level--which in some ways resembles the conservative Republican movement of the carly 1960s...