Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During summer months, Broadway favorites flood the countryside where they are performed by members of the original cast, summer stock troupes or local players. Among this season's most frequent productions...
...Said one helicopter crewman: "If a stray dog had moved, he wouldn't have had a chance." The President bantered with some of the men about home towns and ball teams; he invited a soldier from San Clemente, Calif., to come for a swim at the new Nixon summer White House there. "Tell the Secret Service men I said it's O.K.," the President suggested...
...return to the Senate might have seemed a welcome opportunity to plunge back into his duties. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield greeted him: "Come in, Ted. You're right back where you belong." But Kennedy sat seemingly distracted and depressed at his front-row Senate desk as summer tourists crowded the galleries for a glimpse of him and his colleagues offered subdued and embarrassed greetings...
...GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one of the first Senators, for one thing, to oppose the Viet Nam war-in 1963.) He might yet find an impressive constituency among the young, this time as the substitute for another Kennedy. His appeal to the middle and right of the party, however, would almost certainly be small...
...candidate. This, together with the fact that the party is far from united, increases the chance that the Democrats' next nominee will be someone completely unthought of now. Should a dark horse get the nomination, he may owe it to an incomprehensible night on Chappaquiddick Island in the summer...