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Your description of the President's Yale address as having more style than substance sums up perfectly the New Frontier and the entire Kennedy clan. Also, I fear, the civilization that produced them...
...belonging to a family noted for longevity, Nelson Rockefeller can certainly look forward to 1964, to 1968 or even beyond. And as of now, he is plainly the man to reckon with in the Republican Party. Recently, in the course of campaigning, he was received into the Hawk clan of the Seneca Nation and given a new name: Sagoyewatha. It means "He Keeps Them Awake"-and it somehow seems appropriate to Nelson Rockefeller's present position in his party...
...mortarboard, the Attorney General's wife then told 4,000 guests about the recent White House dinner for Nobel laureates. Everything was going along smoothly, recalled Ethel, until she overheard Chemist Linus Pauling saying: "Great minds are like movie actors or sports figures-they gather together like a clan. I recognize all but two people here." Said Ethel: "I spent the rest of the night looking for the other...
...openly confident as his staff. "You can't be optimistic," he shrugged: "I'm not counting anyone who says he's 'leaning towards me'." He knows that it will take real political guts for a delegate to stand up and be counted against the Kennedy family. Obviously that clan will be influential for some time to come, and the extent to which the President actually backs his brother's campaign is devilishly ambiguous. The official silence from the Washington branch is little solace to the convention delegates; none can vote against Ted the Individual next week without some qualms that...
Death of the Clan. At 46, Sinatra is more alone now than since the days before his From Here to Eternity success made him a late-blooming perennial. Of the Clan, only Dean Martin and Mike Romanoff remain; Peter Lawford (whom Sinatra now snubs) is in a dark sulk, Sammy Davis is a family man. In his new flair for long talks with newsmen, he has conceded that only a few years remain for him as a performer...