Word: bandwagons
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...party of order and political wisdom," P.C. Boss Waldeck Rochet called it last week. No paradigm of classic Marxist militancy, the party jumped embarrassingly late onto the student-worker bandwagon and has generally. played a restraining role in the current crisis. De Gaulle made the Communists respectable by wooing Moscow and the East; they like his foreign policy, but dislike his authoritarianism at home and remain the focus of anti-Gaullism among many workers, the poor and some intellectuals. Prospects: some increase in Assembly seats...
During the months ahead, the polls will be more important than the primaries. While Kennedy must surge ahead in both to capture the Democratic nomination, Hubert Humphrey's best hope of braking a Kennedy bandwagon is to continue outpolling all other Democrats. In re-entering the Republican race, Rockefeller has become the first presidential candidate to base his campaign almost wholly on polls. He can win the nomination only if national surveys convince G.O.P. regulars that Nixon will lose in November. But those surveys now put both Republican contenders ahead of all Democrats-and if that reading continues...
...Bandwagon. Che cultists reverently equate him with such other leftist heroes as Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and French Marxist Régis Debray, a captured member of Che's Bolivian guerrilla band now serving a 30-year prison sentence. "I can't think of a revolutionary in the last century who had his romantic appeal," says Tariq Ali, 24, Pakistani-born leader of London's anti-Viet Nam demonstrators...
...hoped to take more than 45 per cent of the vote in the three-way fight. A vote of over 50 per cent would have seriously injured McCarthy's chances for the nomination and would have thrown a cog in Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's delegate-gathering bandwagon...
...Nixon, what is better than doing two jobs for the price of one? No one will be pressured, Nixon insisted; but with Rocky out of the way, more and more of the G.O.P. Governors, not all of them ardent Nixon supporters, can be expected to jump on his bandwagon of their own volition...