Word: talkathon
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...transferring his affections from the flannel-mouthed Kozlov to the nimble young newcomer. In last winter's Party Plenum debate on the agricultural crisis, Polyansky's role was second only to Khrushchev's. When Khrushchev followed up the debate with a two-month, cross-country talkathon to exhort Russia's peasants to greater effort, it was Polyansky he took along to back...
...midst of the crucial West Virginia primary last spring, Jack Kennedy sent a crisis message to his kid brother, Ted, 28, who was busily running interference in the coal mines of Beckley. In his daily talkathon of 20 or more speeches, Jack's vocal cords had given out, and he badly needed a substitute. Teddy hurried to his brother's side and enthusiastically read Jack's speech to an audience of miners in Ravenswood. As Ted Kennedy recalls it, "I was saying to the audience, 'Do you want a man who will give the country leadership...
...just such a situation-though by week's end he had mercifully spared his colleagues. But there was no dearth of talk. When filibusterers got tired of orating on civil rights matters, they turned to the Bible (Louisiana's Russell Long did both, in an eleven-hour talkathon). Once in a while the Southerners gave way for subject matter of a more businesslike tone, e.g., a speech on U.S. defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision...
...best known as a torrential talker. His lifelong talkathon has made history and legend: he will talk all night on any subject, at any length (the longer the better), to any audience, on any occasion. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words per minute-every word clearly and distinctly enunciated. He can drown out any competition merely by raising his rasping voice an octave. (His younger sister Frances remembers him as a South Dakota newsboy: "When he stood out there on Main Street in front of the drugstore, holding an armload of St. Paul Dispatches...
...formidable political machine in Minnesota. At the same time he has matured and mellowed enough to reach such a warm rapport with the Southern conservative leaders of the Senate that he is ranked as one of the best-liked members of that exclusive club. His 8½-hour talkathon with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in December 1958 gave him an internationalist's aura and propelled him into a commanding position in front of the Democratic liberals...