Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...independent voter, I had yet to understand what Senator Kennedy's qualifications are for President. But I find there is one qualification, and it also solves the problem of the Vice Presidency. We wouldn't need one. If anything happened to Jack, Brother Bobby would fill in, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him. Ah-but what if Teddy went too? Well then, we could fall back on that granddaddy of all shrewd operators...
Placating & Pointing. Ever since Rockefeller withdrew from the presidential race last December, Nixon had assumed that getting the nomination was a cinch. His problem with Rockefeller at Chicago was not to beat him out for the presidential nomination but to win his support for the campaign beyond. The starting point was clearly to get a platform that Rockefeller would endorse...
Boomerang in the Air. Still unsolved when the strategists broke off their meetings was the problem of what to do about the August session of Congress, which will find Richard Nixon presiding over the Senate, Lyndon Johnson back in the slot as majority leader, Kennedy the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and both Kentucky's Thruston Morton, G.O.P. national chairman, and Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Democratic national chairman, in the chamber. New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating gave a hint of problems to come when he tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform...
...broad survey of U.S. military strength for President Eisenhower, a blue-ribbon committee chaired by (then) Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian Jr. recommended the construction of a fleet ballistic missile to be fired from a submarine. It was a suggestion that set up as complex a problem as ever faced the combined talents of U.S. science and technology. It called for a missile that could live in water, the earth's atmosphere, space and the re-entry zone. It demanded a method for handling dangerous fuels and explosives in a confined shipboard environment. Launching problems-tough...
...boasted that he had gone through the second grade. Mother washed other people's clothes with bleeding hands, but would spend her money on fortunetellers, and believed in spirits. In Billy's book, the four sisters are hardly seen or heard, but for the four boys the problem of life was simple: how to get enough...