Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lists and new threats. Going into a meeting with New Yorkers, he bumped into a jovial but tense Lyndon Johnson. "Why don't you take a nap?" kidded Lyndon. "I've got that one all sewed up." Kennedy showed impressive muscle in his first big key play with the Pennsylvania delegation (81 votes). For months Governor David Leo Lawrence, one of the nation's strongest Democratic bosses, had been a holdout against Kennedy for fear that a Roman Catholic presidential nominee might hurt the party in militantly Protestant rural regions. Lawrence and his Pennsylvanians invited Kennedy...
...Brown, California's Governor, won the long-sticking epithet "Tower of Jelly" because he could not make up his mind which game to play-"Back-Jack" or "Favorite Son." After it was too late to matter, an aide reported facetiously that Pat had just conducted another of his famous sidewalk polls. "He wants to find out whether we should support Albert Schweitzer or Fidel Castro for the vice-presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures...
With Khrushchev away touring Austria, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and his lieutenants in the Kremlin dithered for ten days over what to do about the downed RB-47-For reasons best known to themselves, they said nothing. In fact, they sent a cruiser out to play a grisly farce of helping the U.S. and Norwegian air forces look for the survivors...
...London's Buckingham Palace. Quivering with stage fright, she was invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the insignia of a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Tremoloed Dame Judith in her best Medea style: "The hardest role I've ever had to play...
Lehman has also directed the play. He stages it simply and straightforwardly, adding many bits that brighten the evening. A welcome touch is variety and characterization within the lively dances, rather than uniform Rockette precision...