Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kennedy had done it all not with any specific program, or even any very specific catalogue of faults. He had done it by dinning home the simple message of unease, of things left undone in a world where a slip could be disastrous. But most of all he had done it by the force of his own youthful and confident personality, which seemed to promise freshness and vigor. The U.S. had quite literally taken Jack Kennedy at face value...
Despite this vagueness of program, Kennedy won his victory with the strength of personality and tactic. The U.S. had little known or cared about the boyish, tousle-haired Massachusetts Senator until he erupted on his primary campaign last year. With detached fascination they watched him lift the nomination out of the hands of seasoned pros, felt the incredible force of his bandwagon organization as it coursed over the U.S. Over the months he etched the image of a driving personality, the peculiar quality of his hasty rhetoric that seemed to magnetize though it lacked warmth. Unsmiling for the most part...
...newcomer to active politics, although his family has long been politically prominent (Great-Great-Granduncle George Dallas was James K. Folk's Vice President). A Princeton honor graduate and a onetime diplomat in Czechoslovakia and Italy, Democrat Pell speaks four languages, advocates a down-the-line program of liberal legislation from minimum wages to the Forand bill...
...never run for office when he was elected Governor two years ago, but since then he has acted like a political veteran. He pushed through a much needed sales tax earmarked for educational funds, revived a Good Neighbor policy toward the Mexican state of Sonora. His pet highway-safety program ranks among the nation's best...
...Elbert Nostrand Carvel, 50, has inevitably been the butt of some unprintable political jokes. As a campaigner. Republicans have learned, he is no laughing matter. Elected lieutenant governor in 1944, he won the state's top job four years later, and was best known for his school-building program. Farm-fancying Bert Carvel is a bland, high-pitched orator, but he is widely credited with having the shrewdest political brain among top Delaware Democrats...