Word: getterism
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...improved the chances that Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, only woman in the U.S. Senate, will win re-election next November. Until last week, her Democratic opponent in the Senate race seemed certain to be a two-term Congressman Frank Coffin, 40, a highly effective vote getter. But with a Republican in the Governor's chair, Maine organization Democrats will be pressuring Coffin to run for Governor instead of Senator, leaving Maggie Smith to face some less formidable opponent...
...Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...
...electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week São Paulo (pop. 3,650,000), Brazil's biggest city, was counting the votes after an election for city council, and once more the voters had turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year-old female rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish), resident of the São Paulo zoo, whose only graft is 70 Ibs. of vegetables each day. Said one Paulista voter: "Better to elect a rhino than...
Italians agree that Enrico Mattei is some go-getter. A policeman's son, slim, faultlessly tailored Financier Mattei in 14 years has built the state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the rotund, popular engineer of the German economic miracle. But for once, the icy Adenauer eye failed to transfix his party's politicos. Rebellious Bundestag backbenchers protested that to make Erhard President would be to deprive the Christian Democratic Party of "our best vote-getter in 1961," and Erhard himself declined the offer (TIME, March 16). A successful defiance of Adenauer was something...