Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Such calculations and command decisions saturate Bobby's busy mind as he hurries restlessly around the country. For a year his thoughts, passions and supercharged energies have been directed toward one goal: to get his brother Jack elected President of the U.S. In Hyannisport this summer, he called his exhausted staff together for a meeting on the morning after their triumphant arrival from the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. There was no time to savor the victory. "We can rest in November," Bobby announced sternly...
Bobby sat himself down in a small green-carpeted office in Washington's Connecticut Avenue command post and went to work on the National Committee itself. In Paul Butler's six years as chairman, a lot of moss had gathered. Bobby was appalled: "When we first took over here, there were at least 100 workers, and only one girl who could take dictation." At first there was talk of heads rolling, but Bobby strategically retreated: there was not time to build a new headquarters staff, and a lot of influential Democrats would have been offended by a wholesale...
...Organizer Larry O'Brien, Scheduling Coordinator Kenny O'Donnell. Press Attache Pierre Salinger, Fund Raiser (and brother-in-law) Steve Smith. Brother Ted Kennedy was ordered to San Francisco, to supervise campaign operations from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast. Denver Lawyer Byron ("Whizzer") White assumed command of the volunteer Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson groups, and 30 regional coordinators went forth to arbitrate local squabbles and mastermind campaigns in 30 states...
...mildewed villa in Laos' capital city of Vientiane sits a bland, tired-eyed Premier named Prince Souvanna Phouma. He says his neutralist government wants to make peace with everybody, including the Communists. He has the support of two crack paratroop battalions, one of them under command of Captain Kong Le, whose coup last August brought Souvanna Phouma to power...
Tense Moments. An anthropologist's job is especially tough in northern Haiti. Many grown Haitians there have never seen a white man. Afro-Haitian (voodoo) gods sometimes command their worshipers to remove strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. But mustachioed Paul Barker, a former merchant seaman, chemist and Baptist minister, somehow managed to get along. On the northern seacoast near Port Paix, a local landowner and amateur ethnologist-who is also a voodoo potentate-helped Barker excavate the townsite where the gold pendants were found. Tense moments came when it was reported that the god Dambala had ordered...