Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...curled-lip intensity and Yankee twang became a television staple. It was a skillful, relentless and aggressive investigation, conducted at the man-killing pace that has become Bob Kennedy's trademark. When Jack decided to run for the presidency, Bobby cheerfully reverted to a supporting role to become campaign manager. The dogged, hair-raising-and winning-battle he directed for 15 months awed and often angered many an older, greyer politician...
...with outgoing Attorney General William Rogers and an old friend. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His first act as a prospective Cabinet member was to announce his brother's appointment of Denver Lawyer Byron ("Whizzer") White, 43, University of Colorado All-America, Rhodes scholar and veteran Kennedy campaign worker, as Assistant Attorney General...
...smitten with the well-bred Spanish beauty of Beatriz María Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
While Cinemactor Peter Lawford pushed ahead with a talent-packed extravaganza aimed at paying off the $2,000,000 deficit of the recent Democratic campaign (TIME, Dec. 19), Peter's mother melodramatically moved to meet her own bills. In Hollywood, Lady Lawford, seventyish, a British subject ("I would have voted for Mr. Nixon"), took a salesgirl's position with a flossy local jeweler. She was to draw $50 a week for expenses, plus 5% on her sales. Her ladyship's friends explained that she is getting along on a $52-a-month British pension, with Lawford helping...
...plant is the newest example of the Irish government's successful campaign to lure in foreign industries to bolster the island's faltering economy. Principally agricultural, Ireland has provided so few jobs that each year as many as 40,000 Irishmen immigrate, mainly to the U.S. and Canada, to find work. Two years ago, the government put together an appealing package. To the foreign industrialist, it grants a ten-year tax exemption on export profits and offers to pay the full cost of training the workers (average wage: $29 for a 44-hr, week), plus...