Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Like all the other Kennedy competitors, the Johnson strategists figure that Kennedy will fall on the lances of the old professional bosses at the Los Angeles convention-if he hasn't already lost the race in West Virginia. If Kennedy falters, Johnson is prepared to make an end run at the convention (Candidates Symington and Humphrey don't even figure in the calculations). Again, like the other hopefuls, he has a potent candidate for Vice President: Jack Kennedy. "I can see it now," says an aide. "He'll be standing there in the hotel room after...
...commander, De Gaulle suddenly turned away from the waiting VIPs and strode into the watching throng, began pumping hands. At his first-night banquet in the state ballroom of Buckingham Palace, De Gaulle displayed unabashed emotion and proud remembrance. Thanking Britain for assuming the burden of war after the fall of France, he recalled the "most precious encouragements" he had received from the royal family. Turning to Queen Elizabeth, De Gaulle said with feeling, "Where else, Madame, better than in your presence, could I bear witness to my gratitude...
When Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn turned up as head of an investors' group that took control of the money-losing toy train company, Lionel Corp., last fall, Wall Streeters wondered how he had financed the deal. Last week a Lionel Corp. proxy statement revealed that Cohn, onetime chief counsel of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy's Subcommittee on Investigations, was no babe in the jungles of high finance...
...CLOTHING PRICES will rise as much as $4 at retail next fall as a result of a 2½% hourly wage rise won by 125,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers in 25 states...
...introduction is helpful. Unfortunately, the sheer pomposity of any such program of cultural pushups is enough to send many readers scuttling to the pages of Agatha Christie. Perhaps Fadiman should have totted up an auxiliary list of 100 works that are MERELY GOOD (Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Pope's Essay on Man-) and another of volumes FRIVOLOUS BUT CHARMING (Petronius' Satyricon, Cummings' Collected Poems...