Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like every other major politician, Candidate Kennedy has a chorus of voices talking for him. He speaks through the 15 or so smooth-talking, dedicated young men who direct Operation Kennedy (TIME, Feb. 15), the tough and efficient political machine that has impressed and astonished the professional politicians of the nation. He speaks through hundreds of grey-flanneled local volunteers from Maine to Hawaii. He speaks words of honey or vitriol that would be impolitic coming from him through a chorus of guest campaigners, ranging from Colorado Football Star Byron ("Whizzer") White to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (who attacked Hubert...
...central Viet Nam; another is Ambassador to London; a third is the Roman Catholic Bishop of Vinhlong. Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother Nhu's advice on army promotions, government appointments and business contracts. One, of Nhu's pet projects...
...courtyard, Billy gave full measure of metaphor, religious and otherwise. "We in America," said Billy, "are becoming a nation of towering intellects, Atlas-like bodies and shriveled souls. The American people are fiddling and playing around while the world burns and crumbles down around them . . . Life can be sweet, smooth and sassy, like our modern cars, but if we have lost the key, or if there is no fuel in the tank, we can't go any place . . . Like an aircraft in a storm, we have lost contact with the control tower; we are circling, ever circling, with...
...last October for Santa Clara Valley, Calif., where he could absorb the punishing training of Mihaly Igloi, the expert Hungarian coach who defected to the U.S. after the 1956 Olympics. At 5 ft. 6 in., 128 Ibs., Beatty last week seemed to be taking two bustling steps to every smooth stride of the 6-ft. 1-in., 155-lb. Burleson as he followed Coach Igloi's orders to lead his rival through the first lap in the brisk time...
...Trumpet and its sister magazine. Gentlewoman, and save the firm's other, money-making divisions, thereby boosting the company stock and setting up a multimillion-dollar capital gain for himself. In the Cottier situation. Gentlewoman was Woman's Home Companion, and the Morrissey role was played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held debentures convertible into 600,000 shares of common stock at $5 a share. The week Cottier s folded the stock sold for around $5, currently sells for about $25. In the novel Ridge Warren (who little resembles Collier's Chairman...