Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very few of his colleagues have ever dared to do. In defiance of all the crustacean traditions of the U.S. Senate, Massachusetts' Kennedy, with but six years' tenure, challenged and defeated Assistant Majority Leader Russell Long, who is 50 and has 20 years of service in the upper chamber. Ted Kennedy easily won the job of whip, the No. 2 party role in the Senate-next to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield-and a post whose power, limited as it is, he will probably use to the hilt...
...contemporary and compelling dynasty than his own. His father, Kingfish Huey, is a remote and unappealing legend to most Americans today. The Longs have always been parochial, mercurial politicians. Nonetheless, Russell after long tenure had become chairman of the powerful Finance Committee and a card-carrying Bourbon of the Upper House, ranking third in the Senate hierarchy. Kennedy has had just six years in office, heads no committee. He ranks 23rd in seniority in the Senate...
...Dating Game, work with a studio on a movie based on her life, and cohost, with Senator George McGovern, a fund-raising benefit for Cesar Chavez, the leader of the migrant workers in California. She turned down all but the last and spent most of the week in her Upper East Side brownstone writing an article...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...about $9,000,000. But the Japanese businessmen-actors will cost little, if anything. Several volunteered their services without pay; others plan to turn their salaries over to charities. A key participant in the Pearl Harbor events, former Staff Officer Minoru Genda, now a member of Japan's Upper House, looked the businessmen over and was filled with nostalgia. "It was fantastic," he said, "like a reunion with all my bosses and colleagues in the old navy...