Word: symingtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Rockefeller Panel that called for an increase in U.S. defenses. While on the panel. Gilpatric became so impressed by Nelson Rockefeller that in the 1958 New York gubernatorial campaign he led the Democrats for Rockefeller. Last year Gilpatric was a prime contributor to the Symington report urging service integration. A sailor and tennis player. Gilpatric likes to get away weekends with his wife to a farm on Maryland's eastern shore. But there is a landing strip handy and the Pentagon and all its problems are just 20 minutes away...
...John Kennedy's erstwhile competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination, Missouri's Stuart Symington has done the fastest fadeout from the public eye and from the Kennedy Administration plans. The other Democratic front runners-Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey-are very much in evidence, but Symington is conspicuously cold-shouldered. He and the President are still on amiable social terms (they played golf together recently), but the relationship stops during office hours...
...Symington, James, the Senator's folk-singing son, who traveled south to spread President Kennedy's gospel. See THE HEMISPHERE...
FOOD. Two teams of aid and agriculture experts moved south of the border-one led by George McGovern, 38, director of Kennedy's Food-for-Peace program, the other by Deputy Director James Symington, 33, guitar-playing, folksinger son of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy...
...dangerous missile gap. "We are facing a gap on which we are gambling with our survival," he said on the Senate floor a year ago. Lyndon Johnson had clucked that "the missile gap cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a pen." Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase." Ike found the attacks so galling that in his final message to Congress last month he said: "The bomber gap of several years...