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...have been a good year for the Democratic Party, Richard Nixon to the contrary notwithstanding, but it was discouraging for those who hoped to substantially change the temper of Congress. But even in losing, candidates who had been involved in the McCarthy campaign, such as Studds and Duffey in Connecticut, demonstrated a political realism painfully lacking in the past. In their efforts to create a constituency larger than just suburban liberals, through emphasizing issues such as unemployment and inflation, and in attempting to beat the opposition at a game it very often knows very little about, organization, a much-needed...
STYLIANOS Pattakos resembles a Bavarian butcher-balding, with arching, bushy eyebrows and a well-fed physique. He comes from Crete and possesses the unassuming generosity and vengeful temper which is characteristic of his fellow islanders. So great is his pride that the night before the coup, he gave a pistol to his eldest daughter and told her that if she did not hear from him before 3 a.m. the following morning, she must shoot her mother, her younger sister, and herself...
Throwing Steaks. Once (in 1961) he was married, and has a seven-year-old daughter. Now he has a capsule description of his life: "I read, swim, go out, have love affairs." The old Nicholson "used to rant a lot of politics" and had a temper that went off like a Roman candle. A waitress in Hollywood once brought him a well-done steak and proceeded to claim that it was rare. Nicholson protested, spluttered, and then -splat!-the steak hit the restaurant ceiling. "I don't throw steaks around the dining room any more," says Nicholson. His outbursts...
Frisoli's appointment is bitterly opposed by reform-minded parents and most of the city's blacks. They fear that his conservative attitude toward curricular and administrative reform, his lack of sympathy and diplomacy in racial issues, and his quick temper will stifle any progressive movement in Cambridge schools for years to come. There is no legal limit to the length of the Superintendent's term...
...spreading effects of the General Motors strike were putting Ohioans out of work, Gilligan pointed out that Cloud once voted against paying unemployment benefits to workers idled by a strike at another company. Gilligan is a reddish-haired, booming-voiced Irish American with a crushing handshake and a fiery temper that sometimes gets him into political trouble...