Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...session began, Joe Martin's world exploded around him; in a coup by the G.O.P. young guard that shocked him to tears, he was cast out of the minority leadership in favor of Indiana's tough, driving Charlie Halleck. This week, from the obscurity of his back-row seat, Old Joe, 75, evens the score in a brooding, bitter memoir, My First Fifty Years in Politics (McGraw-Hill; $4.50), as told to Robert J. Donovan, Washington chief of the New York Herald Tribune. Martin's book gives little aid and comfort to the G.O.P. during election year...
...Iran's election crisis suddenly hit, McHale covered angry rallies, turned up at the Shah's press conference - a regal affair where reporters wear cutaways and striped trousers - and "clumped down in the rear row, hoping my blue suit wouldn't seem too shabby." He and Fodor met their deadline with a massive report to Foreign News Writer Richard Armstrong, who, having drawn on background material put together by Researcher Nancy McD. Chase, turned out the story of a hardworking king in trouble. What McHale and Fodor needed then was rest-perhaps in a miniature-like garden...
When Dick Nixon traveled to Maine -at Maggie Smith's invitation-for a rousing welcome last month, he urged her to break her rule and campaign with him, but rather than risk missing a vote, Maggie chose to stick by her front-row desk. Most G.O.P. Senators would have run to Nixon's side, but Maggie runs her own show, with her own organization in Maine, and pays little heed to the regular state machine or the National Committee. She turned her back on the Republican Convention last July, chose to mend her fences in Maine instead...
...edgy jockeying going on in both presidential camps could be seen in all its angry and ridiculous aspects last week in a row over a remote question: Who would have the privilege of paying for $100,000 worth of plane fares to the U.S. for 250 African students? What made the question politically explosive was that the two rival contenders for the privilege were Richard M. Nixon (through the U.S. State Department) and John F. Kennedy (through his family's charitable foundation...
...rather like puppets, gesturing about on the stage with blurs for faces. Thus the histrionics that he, a critic in the stalls, found overdone were necessary if those seated with the gods were to see anything of interest. Subtle gestures just don't work: rather, a subtle gesture for Row B is invisible in Row JJ, subtle gesturing for JJ is out-heroding Herod...