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...have toiled at the $3 billion California Water Plan (see map) and ignored critics who consider the project environmentally bankrupt. Last month the builders got a major boost when California voters approved an interest increase on $600 million worth of state bonds needed to continue the project. Now the backlash has begun...
...said, should call a national conference to extricate the country from its "economic morass." The attractiveness of the economic issue is obvious. One can be accused of excessive partisanship for criticizing the President's foreign policy. To attack the Administration for provoking domestic unrest is to risk a backlash from those weary of dissent. Appealing to the voters' bankbook is never dangerous. The President understands this well. He believes one of the reasons he lost the 1960 election was that the Republicans had allowed the economy to slow down. But he remains convinced that he can control...
When a long-haired antiwar demonstrator at the University of Kentucky grabbed A.B. ("Happy") Chandler by the tie, Chandler, 71, countered with his own backlash-a stiff punch in the nose. "I'm sorry I did that," said the former Governor and U.S. Senator. "I didn't even think." The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Whatever Young's decision, it will have repercussions beyond U.C.L.A. Firing Angela Davis may well trigger trouble at some of U.C.'s more combustible campuses such as Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Keeping her may well cause a backlash in the June primary election, when California voters will be asked to approve a $246 million bond issue for a badly needed health sciences complex at U.C.L.A. "I like my job," says Chancellor Young, who gets $41,000 a year. "I can't think of anything I'd rather do." But unless he finds a way to please...
Says Watson: "I want people to think. Humor without anger is nothing." But anger with humor can be devastating. As Godfrey Cambridge puts it: "I hope the backlash doesn't mean that some of my good white liberal friends are going to buy me back...