Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 32. A farm-belt Unitarian and soft-spoken intellectual, Ted Sorensen was introduced to his first political audience at the age of six as the son of Nebraska's Republican attorney general. First in his class at the University of Nebraska law school, he worked for the Federal Security Agency in Washington, joined the staff of freshman Senator Kennedy in 1953. They found keen enjoyment in a common intellectual approach to politics, collaborated on Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Together, they traveled through every state from 1956 to 1960, compiled a detailed, 30,000-name...
...ticket to Tokyo had been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate...
Billy Smith's Law. To spur interest, a law's proper name is not revealed until long after students have grown skilled at using it. Meanwhile, they make up their own names. A class may find itself with a Billy Smith Law, or using the symbol a, which one student invented for "approximately equal to." Teachers are expected to lead students as far as they will explore...
...structure in the District of Columbia. But in the refrigerators that cram its rooms are germs of the world's most terrible diseases. Close beside them are beneficial bugs that flavor cheeses, and turn grain into beer. Last week this microbe zoo was preparing to add another class of inmate: cultures of cells from higher animals, such as cancer cells...
...journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong, immediate appeal to almost every class and group of voters. The Democrats have not merely chosen a formidable contestant; they have chosen a truly remarkable man, full of promise, with a strength and stature no one can doubt...