Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Collectively, the Cabinet wound up squarely in the middle of the Democratic road-and miles from the left-side soft shoulder that sometimes seemed to be promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury), 51, and Independent Robert McNamara (Defense), 44, through Middle-Reading Abe Ribicoff (Health, Education and Welfare), 50, Labor Lawyer Arthur Goldberg (Labor), 52, to dogmatic Fair Dealer Orville Freeman (Agriculture), 42. The anchor man was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, more diplomat than Democrat, though both. The one that stirred...
...stolen. Police went after the thief, but a magistrate fined Rusk for "tempting thievery." In its foreign relations, says Rusk, the U.S. must be careful not to "tempt thievery" by failing to let the Communists know precisely where it stands on important issues. "We must not let the other side speculate on how much they can get away with...
Once, Bowles publicly and unprofessionally took India's side in the Kashmir dispute, and some critics thought he bent over too far in helping Nehru squeeze as much U.S. aid out of Washington as the traffic would bear. Bowles's dedication and fervent propagandizing helped to form a strong pro-India lobby...
...that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy. "But I don t like...
...last of eight children of a Russian immigrant family, Goldberg grew up on Chicago's West Side, went to work as a delivery boy in a shoe factory (for $3.80 a week) at the age of twelve, and won his law degree at Northwestern University at 20. He argued his own case so beguilingly before the state Supreme Court that the rules were suspended and he was permitted to take his bar examinations before his 21st birthday...