Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wisconsin. One of the disappointed hopefuls in the vice-presidential bingo game at the Democratic Convention, Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 44, may still look forward to a political future beyond the shores of Lake Michigan. A smooth public speaker (and a smoother raconteur in informal moments), the darling of organized labor and an unabashed liberal, he brought a program of sweeping social reforms and a crew-cut crew of intellectuals to Madison in 1958, will give Wisconsin a second chorus of the same music in his second term...
...managed to give its coverage a more exciting tone. Anchor Man Walter Cronkite read even early returns in momentous tones, and for a single, steady, unruffled and well-organized performance, he was unbeaten all night. The familiar CBS supporting crew-Eric Sevareid, Douglas Edwards, Charles Collingwood, et al., were smooth, quick and, in the case of Nancy Hanschman, pretty. Conspicuously missing: CBS Oracle Edward R. Murrow bedded down with pneumonia, possibly complicated by a slight case of disgruntlement over the you-be-Brinkley treatment he received during the conventions...
...Take Over. The key problem is that the U.S.-with 2,380,475 federal employees, a $77 billion annual budget, and a cold war on its hands-has no constitutional machinery for transferring power from one administration to another. To smooth the way, a Brookings team set up liaison with Clark Clifford, onetime counsel for Harry Truman, representing Kennedy, and Brigadier General Robert E. Cushman Jr., speaking for Nixon. Advised by a 14-man committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated...
...hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue of smooth organization in a traditionally Democratic city-he turned a visit to Manhattan into a mammoth, impassioned Democratic declaration of confidence. It reverberated along the Kennedy bandwagon tracks through the whole nation...
...impressed by John F. Kennedy's performances. Certainly he is a "Jack Be Nimble" who jumps over candlesticks unsinged. After the spellbinding, however, close examination reveals him as a master of the ambiguous statement, able to weave loopholes and cobwebs into a pleasing fabric on every issue. A smooth politician? Certainly. A great leader? Doubtful. My vote will probably go to Mr. Nixon as a man big enough to admit a fault and wise enough to correct...