Word: unkindnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such ringing conviction was the last thing his critics expected when Home took office last year. In fact, some were unkind enough to hold that his life had peaked 39 years before at Eton, where Classmate Cyril Connolly remembers him as "the graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville...
...Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that they [State Department officials] are particularly qualified to handle huge sums of money. In fact, I would say they are pretty thoroughly demoralized down at State right...
Hornblow's group worked feverishly throughout the day to gather signatures and Council votes. Just before the meeting they held a conference in Tim Petri's room. His roommate, Bruce Chapman, is a member of the Alberg, Barber, Chapman combination which Phillips claimed had dealt him such an unkind blow in the HYRC. Chapman was not there, but nonetheless the Hornblow movement had the aura of a political war party out for revenge. Since Howie won the Massachusetts YR Chairmanship from former HYRC boss Hugh Barber, he is a strong candidate for national chairman. Bruce Chapman is actively backing current...
...unkind twist of politics, the election that brought John F. Kennedy to the White House also reinforced the conservatives in Congress, and they consider the New Frontier's multi-billion-dollar welfare plans much too expensive. Concedes Washington's Jackson: "The President isn't going to get from Congress everything he asks...
...regulation, while unkind to students who take the "straightforward" approach, is open to dishonest practices. Among cases of evasion widely discussed around the Ivy League...