Word: committeemen
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...control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest of all national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls all facets of existence, pulls young and old into the web of ideological influence and ensures that no "foreign" political concept can take root...
McNamara's troubles are partly a matter of manner. Though he is more gracious in testifying than he once was, and has even taken to asking key congressional military committeemen to the Pentagon for briefing breakfasts, the Secretary has consistently all but ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
...issues looked less clear-cut to grass-roots-sniffing committeemen. For one thing, the Great Society legislation of 1965 loses much of its immediacy as a campaign pitch for 1966. The overriding popular concern, delegates made clear, is the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. Michigan's Neil Staebler spoke for many of the 110 National Committee members when he said...
...this include the Birch Society? None of the committeemen would say so-at first. Then Birch Publicist John Rousselot crowed in San Marino, Calif., that it was "wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...
Though G.O.P. county committeemen gave Lindsay their formal endorsement by acclamation at a meeting in Brooklyn's faded Hotel St. George last week, his headlong flight from the party label irked many regulars. The reason for Lindsay's desire to dissociate himself from the Republican Party lay, of course, in New York City's registration figures: 2,378,000 Democrats to 698,000 Republicans. It is perfectly obvious that to win he will need the votes of many Democrats, disenchanted with Wagner and enchanted with him. But it would seem equally obvious that he should...