Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Thanksgiving Day, when most of the U.S. was attacking a turkey with trimmings, John Courtney Murray, S.J., and TIME Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss sat down to scrambled eggs and Chesapeake Bay crab in a lonely roadside restaurant outside Baltimore. Being members of professions that work on holidays when there is work to be done, they were at work-on this week's TIME cover story...
Friends and allies were already at work. In Los Angeles, supporters began to set up an office to answer Nixon's mail, plan lecture tours, help with speechwriting and strategy. In Washington, G.O.P. Congressmen invited Nixon to sit in on all meetings of the House-and-Senate Republican policy committees. In Illinois, Missouri and Texas, Republicans were pressing for official recounts of the 1960 votes, less in hopes of upsetting Jack Kennedy than of taking the shine off Kennedy's victory. Nixon himself held no illusions about re versing the 1960 decision,* planned to remain above the rumblings...
...Brown at the moment appears vulnerable, and if Nixon were to contest and beat him, it would certainly increase Nixon's 1964 presidential chances. But a loss to Brown would surely be the end of the Nixon road: Is the gain worth the big risk? Some Nixon advisers work on another thesis: come 1964, Kennedy may be riding a high crest of popularity. Nixon is still young. If 1964 looks unpromising for a Republican candidate, let Nelson Rockefeller or Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater run and lose. Then 1968 would be Nixon...
Among victorious swimming coaches there are two kinds of men, those who fret and never sleep, and those who work hard, but lead the good life and sleep well. Varsity mentor Bill Brooks, of the latter category, might just as well stay in bed today, because his boys are going to murder Brown...
...Cambridge Rescue Squad is equipped to handle every variety of emergency. The men are trained and experienced in this work and are always ready to go instantly. It apparently has not been the policy of the University to call on the Cambridge squad, even though it is located right in the middle of the Harvard complex. Why the University operator has not been instructed to do this is the question to which I would like an answer. David R. Downes...