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...gambler in a hurry, Nasser has missed few tricks in conspiracy and demagoguery. Every sleazy political fugitive in Asia and Africa finds a place on his international bandwagon. He has so far converted Islam into his personal political instrument that the Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, who is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope, seems to spend much of his time looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers...
...energy, made up for lost time by running a handshaking "survey" of voters in all 99 counties, asking the old pros of all factions for the advice they love to give. Some of them fell so in love with their own advice that they joined Murray's bandwagon, and in last week's primary it rolled to a thoroughly professional 110,000-to-85,000 victory over Lieut. Governor Nicholas...
...Rayburn, despite his own opposition to tax cuts, ordered lieutenants to get a tax-cut bill drafted in case the economy fails to pep up in early spring. And for all his confidence in ultimate prosperity, Richard Nixon put the Republicans within leaping distance of the tax-cut bandwagon. Said he: "If the choice is between a boondoggling public program on a massive scale and a tax cut, I for one would be for a tax cut. It would give an immediate impetus to the economy...
...rather than have them go off to school and pick up ideas that might not fit into the company's scheme. Furthermore, since executive training has become so popular, some companies feel that many colleges have set up inferior courses just to get on the bandwagon. And many rightly fear that their bright young men will be lured away by corporate talent scouts lurking in the university halls...
...TIME is aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. This free advertising for Senator John Kennedy is of great benefit to the Democrats and more important to the Catholic Church. If Kennedy is nominated by the "Damn-old-rats," I propose Paul Blanshard as Republican nominee...