Word: backwashes
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Constantly feeling the air, Bush ran on huge approval ratings, always coming up with the right moves, until he got checkmated by the backwash of a past administration and an economy that wouldn't behave...
...cold war. But at home only the rich have truly prospered. The middle class is hurting, the poor are poorer, inequality has grown and the country's ability to compete has been hindered by an undistinguished education system and widespread inattention to the problems of those caught in the backwash of the West's victory over the "evil empire...
Sophfronia Scott and David Gross are among TIME's youngest journalists, but they already know how to spot a story their older colleagues might overlook. The result is this week's cover report on the twentysomething crowd, the little noticed generation that has bobbed along in the backwash of the much larger baby-boom group. The two TIME reporter-researchers brought firsthand experience to the task: Scott is 23 and Gross is 24. "David and I knew that we had different ideas, tastes and goals than baby boomers do," says Scott, who wrote the story with Gross. "When we began...
...outline is familiar enough: Southern California childhood (straitened but not so impoverished as Nixon later claimed), Whittier College, Duke University Law School, service as a naval officer in the backwash of the war in the Pacific, successful Republican campaign for Congress in 1946, Red hunting, Alger Hiss, the Senate in 1950 (after a bitter contest against "the pink lady," Helen Gahagan Douglas), Ike and the vice presidency in 1952. Ambrose's account of this progress throws a few details into intriguing relief. The young Nixon ("Gloomy Gus" to family and classmates) was regarded as emotionally pinched but unimpeachably honest...
...assume the chairmanship of PTL's board. Falwell, who is already fully preoccupied with politics, pastoring and his own struggling cable-TV network, said he was not eager to take the PTL helm but felt pressed to do so. Bakker's current problems, said Falwell, might create a "backwash that could hurt every Gospel ministry in America, if not the world...