Word: lavishness
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Henry Cabot Lodge, who that year was giving his all as Ike's preconvention campaign manager, never quite knew what hit him. Kennedys seemed to sprout up all over Massachusetts, making speeches, holding lavish tea parties, starting chain-telephone campaigns, appearing on television ("Coffee with the Kennedys"). Toward the end, State Senator John Powers, then and now a top Kennedy lieutenant, urged that Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy be brought into the campaign. "But she's a grandmother," objected Joe Kennedy. "That's all right," said Powers. "She's a Gold Star mother, the mother...
...some of Roosevelt Raceway's runaway revenue, he raked in kickbacks from nearly everybody, erected the Labor Lyceum, containing a meeting hall, restaurant and Long Island's biggest bar (where union members spent liberally to stay in his good graces), had his union help build him a lavish home...
Whatever else it may be, next Sunday night (Oct. 13) will be the most lavish in TV history. A 3½-hour cascade of money and talent will flow into the cameras. For a change, TV fans will not have to flick dials from one show to another-the big parade of singers, dancers and actors has been programed without any overlapping: ¶ NBC and Rexall Drug Co. will try spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn...
...shows, all three networks have tried to use something of its approach. Though such programs as NBC's Outlook, CBS's World News Roundup, ABC's Open Hearing are often well done, they suffer from a lack of See It Now's huge budget, its lavish shooting, its long experience. They also lack Edward R. Murrow...
...newest in a long series that has embroiled U.S. airlines in a dust-raising quarrel with the State Department. Airmen charge that State's Office of Transport and Communications, the branch responsible for working out air agreements, is dispensing U.S. routes to foreign operators with far too lavish a hand, and getting little-or nothing-in return. The cumulative effect, say the lines, is that while U.S.-flag carriers flew 80% of all transatlantic traffic in 1947, today they account for slightly less than 50%, even though almost 70% of all passengers are U.S. citizens...