Word: democratizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monarchist Calvo Serer has changed. In a treatise to be published soon, he calls for an adapted form of the British constitutional monarchy, complete with three major parties (Conservative, Christian Democrat and Socialist), representative Cortes-and universal suffrage...
Double Standard. By that measure, at least, even Fulbright was a realist last week. After his committee's second session on Viet Nam, the Arkansas Democrat complained: "I have never seen an issue on which there has been such uncertainty. There were no such differences in the Korean War or World War II. One reason is that this situation isn't very clear...
...enough when the kid became a Buddhist," said one Rockefeller aide. "But a Democrat? That's going too far." Actually, John D. Rockefeller IV, 28, never became a Buddhist while he was studying Japanese culture on $30 a month in Kyoto, though he is committing the other heresy. Young "Jay," whose Uncle Nelson runs the New York Statehouse and Uncle Winthrop is running for the one in Arkansas, is filing as a candidate for the West Virginia house of delegates-as a Democrat. At present, Jay is a neighborhood worker in Action for Appalachian Youth, a field that...
...help build up challengers for their own seats (although the proposal as now drafted would force a Representative to resign at least a month before Election Day if he decided to run for the Senate). Some House members who face little challenge in their districts also are skeptical. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a 22-term Congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reasons: "The House represents the people, and they should have the right to register their will more often than every four years...
There is no real evidence that Opus Dei has political aims. If some of its members hold top positions in the Franco government, others, such as Christian Democrat Florentine Pérez Embid and Liberal Monarchist Rafael Calvo Serer, are prominent opponents of the regime. Says Monsignor Escrivá: "Opus Dei will always include all tendencies that the Christian conscience will allow...