Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...usual, the tight little Kennedy inner group had done the kind of meticulous preparation that should fascinate political science classes for years to come. A screening committee of veteran Kennedy staffers, headed by Brother-in-Law Sargent Shriver and Larry O'Brien, began combing banks, foundations, campuses and corporations for the names of likely candidates and assembling background data. In some cases, very little research was needed (e.g., Arkansas Senator Bill Fulbright, who was already well known to Kennedy). In others (e.g., Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, whom Kennedy had never met), a complete dossier was ordered...
None of the Whiz Kids grew into executive manhood faster than McNamara. Starting as a financial analyst, he was named company controller in 1949, group vice president in charge of all car and truck divisions in 1957. Last month, just one day after Kennedy won the election, McNamara was made the first non-Ford ever to serve as president of the nation's second largest auto firm (TIME...
...iron bars. But still the green-and-white flags waved, and the Moslem crowds, scattered by police charges, re-formed as soon as the police withdrew. From rooftops and windows, Moslem women cheered on their men with high-pitched cries of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" One woman shouted at a group of paratroops: "Cowards! You were thrown out of Indo-China, you were thrown out of Tunisia, you were thrown out of Morocco. You will be thrown out of Algeria. Here, all you can do is make war on women and children...
Although the convention intends to circumvent the political problems in the Legislature, this does not mean that the professional politicians will not be its dominant leaders--for good or bad. The group will be small--140; 120 will be elected by Senatorial districts and 20 by the whole state, giving the established politician a better chance in these fairly large units. One plan would have given the Legislature 20 seats and barred them from the general elections, but this idea was rejected as both impractical and as an undemocratic restriction on the electorate...
...Convention 50 per cent of the delegates had previous legislative experience and, as Attorney Morris M. Goldings points out, the importance of the statistic depend on which half impresses you more. Knowledge of how a legislative body works certainly adds to the efficiency of the group, and, significantly, the leading figure at that convention was an extremely responsible and effective professional politician. Still, despite President Lowell's failure to win a seat in 1917, the gatherings draw out many capable people and provide unique opportunities for political expression in the research done by civic groups and universities...