Word: foe
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...once held by Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley. Despite his double negatives and other grammar gaps, he was re-elected 14 times, thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply lopped four Oregon projects out of his pork bill. Morse eventually backed down. "Mike's Fish Tank" will...
...some day, probably no later than 1972, the junior Senator from New York will try to cash in those coins for the presidency of the U.S. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., with an almost perceptible shudder, talks of "the inevitability of Bobby." Playwright-Novelist Gore Vidal, a longtime foe, protests that "we now have a three-party system in America-the Democrats, the Republicans and the Kennedys." Cries Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, who had an acrimonious confrontation with Bobby during last month's hearings on the plight of U.S. cities: "Bobby Kennedy is conducting a lavish...
Political Minus. The hearing ended, but the dispute was not over. The quick-tongued, wiry (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Yorty has always taken on the most formidable foe he could find, whether it be the "entrenched downtown interests" in Los Angeles or the Kennedys-and no one has ever battled with him and come away unscathed. Back home in Los Angeles, Yorty called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap...
...should have had, and even if he exaggerated his lack of power, their confrontation was probably a political plus for him and a minus for Bobby Kennedy's political fortunes in California, a state that has long had to endure outside barbs. While Yorty's longtime foe, the Los Angeles Times, criticized the mayor's "indifferent performance" in fighting poverty, it came down hard on the subcommittee's "remarkable obtuseness in its failure to comprehend how the city and county of Los Angeles function...
...correspondents, an aggressive, often corrosive journalist who spent 19 years south of the border for the Chicago Tribune, dodging bullets, getting beaten with rifle butts, being jailed, deported and mobbed, all the while ceaselessly badgering news-shy governments to relax press censorship and winning a reputation as an implacable foe of dictatorships both right and left, which he amply documented in articles and books (Freedom Is My Beat, Fidel Castro: Rebel-Liberator or Dictator?); of a heart attack; while covering an economics conference in Bogota, Colombia (see THE WORLD...