Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High Asparagus. This year, by contrast with the 1964 campaign, there is no bitter ideological division between the Republican rivals. Both know that to offset the Democrats' 3-to-2 edge over registered Republicans, the winner must have at least 90% of the G.O.P. vote and not less than 20% of the Demo cratic ballot to beat Brown...
...necessity for increased expenditures had political repercussions. During the recession years 1957-62 taxes had to rise often more than once. Thought legislative majorities were usually entrenched by malapportionment, governors found themselves increasingly unpopular, and in 1962, most of the governors running for reelection were defeated. By contrast, only five incumbent U.S. Senators were beaten...
Troughmanship. Starting at scratch, Shriver's OEO has launched a dozen complex programs, recruited quite a few able people to run them, and in most instances moved swiftly to excise abuses. By contrast with the Peace Corps, which got one twenty-fifth as much funds in its first two years and operated mostly in areas remote from domestic scrutiny, the war on poverty has probably suffered most from President Johnson's hankering for Instant Utopia. "It's like we went down to Cape Kennedy," says Shriver, "and launched a half-dozen rockets at once...
...Rusk's failure to look at the Vietnamese war empirically which particularly irks Senator Fulbright. The contrast between the two men became apparent during their public exchange at the Senate hearings two months ago, when Fulbright responded to the Secretary's legalistic interpretation of the war by describing the North Vietnamese as "poor, confused, and ignorant people." According to Sorenson's Kennedy, President Kennedy was forced to choose Rusk over Fulbright for the Secretaryship because of objections to Fulbright's position on civil rights. Future historians may well point to the irony of the decision by which J. William Fulbright...
Lacouture's piece on De Gaulle is written with a delicacy that is refreshing in contrast to the mere competence or polemical outrage of the other articles. De Gaulle, according to his longtime observer, is no overbearing dictator in the conventional sense. "Authoritarian by temper, unfit for negotiation, impatient in dispute, he wants to dominate by the highness of his thoughts and depth of his views, not by forcing upon," writes Lacouture...