Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Welfare. With the U.S. longevity rate increasing, a new special-interest group made itself felt more strongly than ever. In the West particularly, older people expressed concern for their welfare by supporting Kennedy for his Forand-type medical-aid-to-the-aged proposals. Somehow, Kennedy's program got across to old people more clearly than Dick Nixon's complicated aid-through-states plan. It almost certainly gave Kennedy his California lead...
...When we came back from the Los Angeles convention," said Texas Attorney General Will Wilson, "I would guess that the state was only about 35% for Kennedy. We had an unacceptable platform to contend with, the religion issue and a loud anti-Johnson group." The Democrats got to work, corralled the Negro, Latin American and labor, vote for Kennedy, then drummed up old-fashioned party loyalty everywhere else. They got an unexpected break in the last week, courtesy of Republican Congressman Bruce Alger, who egged on the group of rowdy Republicans who jostled Johnson and his wife Lady Bird...
...even deducted $3,994 in depreciation and gas-and-oil expenses for his little red sports car, a Mercedes-Benz SL 300, on his tax returns as business expenses. That gave scholarly Chicago Crimebuster Richard Ogilvie, 37, the clue he needed. Ogilvie, sole survivor of a Justice Department investigative group ostentatiously set up in 1958 to combat Chicago crime, checked with 3,500 local tavern owners, discovered that not one of them had ever seen Tony come around, at least to sell any beer...
...building, Diem's two loyal battalions of palace guards gave as good as they got, turning back truckload after truckload of insurgents trying to charge the gate to the grounds. Diem himself repaired to a radio station that he had thoughtfully installed for just such emergencies. "A group of junior officers revolted at 3 a.m.," he announced. "Liaison with my provincial commanders is temporarily disrupted." He ordered reinforcements to move on Saigon. Then he sat down and prepared to wait...
...Yale Law School's Dean Eugene V. Rostow is "seriously considering" a lottery to pick evenly matched applicants. In culling 250 entrants from 1,200 applicants, Yale Law has no trouble choosing 80 from the superior "A group." Problem is selecting 170 from the remaining "B group," all of them with equal marks. "Interviews only give you impressions," said Rostow. "I myself have no faith in my ability to interview an applicant and necessarily come up with the best prospect. Choosing them by lot would probably be fairer...