Word: turncoat
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...from the crisp gags, is the smug conviction that California has captured the great Neil Simon and thus is one up on New York. But it is not quite that simple. Simon has not succumbed to California; he has just borrowed it. He asks: "How can I be a turncoat when everything about me-all the baggage I've accumulated since my birth-is pure New York?" In Manhattan, Simon lived in a comfortable East Side townhouse. Now he has a massive electronic gate blocking the entrance to the ten-room house, gardens and pool that he shares with...
...former Texas Governor John Connally, a spellbinding speaker who hankers to be President. But it still seemed unlikely that the Republican delegates, basically the same kind of conservatives who nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964 and only grudgingly accepted Richard Nixon in 1968, would give their nomination to a Democratic turncoat. It seemed far more unlikely that the Republican Convention would move to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, still a pariah to the party's dominant right wing. Yet Rockefeller will control most of the huge New York delegation (154 delegates, making up 7% of the convention's votes), and he might...
...also turned out that Hoffa's family considers O'Brien to be a turncoat, claiming that he made a separate peace with Fitzsimmons. The Teamster president gave O'Brien a highly paid job as an organizer for the southern conference of the union. Authorities noted that O'Brien was very close to Giacalone, whom he calls "Uncle Tony." In the past, O'Brien had often driven Hoffa to meet Giacalone, or vice versa...
...peppery 49, Allbritton is a Texas Democrat who has no love for Turncoat Republican John Connally, and was a major backer of the presidential ambitions of Senator Edmund Muskie-partly, friends say, because he has a hankering to swing some weight in big-time politics. Apparently with that ambition in mind, he tried to buy the archconservative Houston Chronicle in 1972, but was turned down because the owners considered him too liberal...
...aspirations. Because of his liberal voting record, he and the G.O.P. soon soured on each other, a disenchantment he documented in a cathartic diary, O Congress. Last year he jumped to the Democratic Party ("I'm on the same wave length with Bella Abzug"). If he survives the turncoat stigma, as now appears likely, Riegle could be a contender for the Senate...