Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollis Huston, who plays Chulkaturin is a very fortunate man; this stumbling, bumbling butt of every joke, because he is so very human, so unlike the other-worldly Marsault of The Stranger, is one of the most convincing of the characters Ribman has created...
...aides has been visiting state capitals. State representatives have even received personal phone calls from the gravel-voiced Senator. During a recent debate over the petition in the Delaware legislature, Senate Majority Leader Frank Grier suddenly found himself called to the telephone. It was Dirksen, a total stranger. He told the startled legislator to "bear down" and get the votes necessary for passage...
...Kennedy was telling the truth about this aspect of the incident, but most evidence indicates that he was, if for no other reason than that an affair in the night seemed totally out of character for Mary Jo (see box, overleaf). Says Esther Newberg: "Mary Jo was not a stranger or a pickup. She was like a member of the family." On the other hand, says a longtime Kennedy watcher, "one can also sense that Kennedy, jovial, relaxed, perhaps high, might have said: 'Come on, Mary Jo, and let's have a look at the ocean...
...mystery was the reason for Kennedy's presence on the Vineyard. Vacationing with his family on Squaw Island, near Hyannisport, he had come over with R.F.K.'s oldest son Joseph to take part in the Edgartown Yacht Club races. Less easily explained is why Kennedy, no stranger to the area, tried to ram a big car across a tilted bridge that is risky by day and perilous at night. The wide macadam road that leads to the Chappaquiddick ferry slip makes a turn to the left; the narrow dirt track that leads to the bridge swings sharply...
...Stranger still is the Administration's failure to communicate with Republicans in Congress. Stories, some apocryphal, some true, are making the rounds about urgent telephone calls to the White House that go unanswered for days or weeks, or for good. There seems to be no ideological bias to the neglect, but Republican liberals are the most upset. Democrats, of course, were never enchanted with Nixon; so they could scarcely be characterized as disenchanted now. Nonetheless, there is a growing feeling that the President is a man who bends under pressure. Many were confirmed in this view when Everett Dirksen...