Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adlai Stevenson had come to town, too, and from the evident Southern California passion for Stevenson or from the scattered pockets of Northern resistance could come a derailment of Kennedy plans...
...Kennedy mollified the liberals by appointing Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles to be his agents at White House briefings on foreign affairs (but Ike himself said he would give classified information to nobody but Kennedy or Johnson). Other folks were reminded that, come to think of it, F.D.R., the Northern liberal, had once chosen Texas Conservative John Nance Garner as his running mate ("Garner regretted it the rest of his life," said a Texan ruefully. "I hope Johnson doesn't") and recalled how Adlai Stevenson's No. 2 man in 1952 was Alabama's Senator John Sparkman...
...Counsel Roy Cohn. Appointed counsel of the Senate rackets committee in 1957, he flayed Teamster hoods and faced down Jimmy Hoffa, added color to Brother Jack's campaign as a cocky crusader and bestselling author (The Enemy Within}. Father of seven, he got home to his wooded northern Virginia estate infrequently during far-flung primary battles, plans to be back in action this week as Jack's campaign manager after a three-day post-convention break...
Khaki is the Indian farmer's word for the dusty, brown, bare countryside of northern India-a word that imperial British soldiers long ago adopted to describe the sand-drab color of their field uniforms. Last week, from the tea gardens of the Malabar Coast to the millet patches of the high Himalaya, Indians were discussing the government's new third five-year plan (1961-66), in which highest priority is assigned to agriculture...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Gsell, 87, Alsatian-born Roman Catholic missionary, known as "the bishop with 150 wives" for his campaign against native child-marriage customs in Australia's Northern Territory (he would "buy" young girls, sometimes for as little as $5, and send them off to mission homes); in Sydney...