Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...climbed the political heights, ever sure of himself, Jack Kennedy has demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt that he is the young political master. In his band of merry men are idealist professors and throat-cutting politicians. They give Kennedy advice, he listens attentively, blots up their words, and then makes his own decision. "Nobody tells Jack what to do," growls Joe Kennedy, "unless he wants to be told." Jack moves swiftly to consolidate his leadership. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn were as withering in their criticism of Kennedy before the conventions as Dick Nixon has been...
Stretching a Point. For five hours Mrs. Harvey's attorney, huge (238 Ibs.) Andrew Rankin, 36, hammered at the calm, moderate Dr. Evans. Suppose, he asked, that the stocking found around Mrs. Knight's throat had not been stretched. Would the cause of death be certain? "No," replied the scientist. Then Rankin moved in on Witness Clift, the government biologist who had rashly admitted that he was an "expert on stocking strangulation cases." "Did you ever ask if that stocking had been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking...
...three disabilities that pelvis-twirling Elvis Presley might most fear are a sore throat, a dislocated hip, or an injury to his guitar-strumming paw. During his recent Army draftee stint he was briefly silenced by tonsillitis. Last week, during a touch-football game in home-town Memphis, Elvis dived at the ball carrier, broke the little finger of his string-zinging hand. His hips, however, are still swinging...
...with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof he is your friend, but when he goes outside you can slit his throat...
...Other wear and tear on the road last week: Tammy Grimes, as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, sank out of two performances because of laryngitis, while Judy Holliday indefinitely delayed the opening of Laurcttc because she needed corrective surgery for a throat condition. At week's end the show, which had drawn boos in a preview performance in Philadelphia, was abandoned altogether...