Word: tip
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...close handshake, there was a big difference: campaigning for a third Senate term, the Keef was running scared. Bird-dogging him was the combined specter of a man and an issue that might well keep Estes Kefauver at home next year. The man was Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor, bombastic relic of the Crump machine and no-quarter segregationist. The issue was civil rights...
...Tip Taylor campaigned through the flatlands and the Smokies he thumped Estes Kefauver for virtually every integrationist crime except the Emancipation Proclamation, denounced him for turning his back on Tennessee and the South by voting for the civil rights bill in the Senate last spring. "If I had been in the Senate, there would have been 19 instead of 18 Senators voting against the civil rights bill. Every Democratic Congressman from Tennessee voted against that civil rights bill, but Senator Kefauver voted for it.* Every state is entitled to two Senators. New York has two Senators to represent the people...
...accused Tip of being against the sacred Tennessee Valley Authority (though Tip denies it) because of his connections with big business. He criticized Tip's attacks on federal aid and charged him with having the support of the "drug interests" who, Estes implies, are out to even the score for the Kefauver Senate investigation of drug prices. Knowing his vulnerability on civil rights, the Keef prudently stayed away from the Los Angeles Democratic Convention, surmising that he might be tagged with partial responsibility for the all-out civil rights plank. Yet, though he was fighting for his political life...
Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...
...coverage of the Kennedy auto cavalcade, with shots of young Jack's fingers tapping on the dash board. NBC proudly claimed that it got the best shots of Kennedy leaving his hideaway cottage after being nominated (ABC was there, lenses akimbo, but its cameramen somehow followed a phony tip and were crouched in waiting by the back door, which never opened). Actually, little newsbeats here and there were not what mattered. More than the others, it was NBC that held the steadiest eye on the center of the story...