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...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller has taken note of some G.O.P. disinterest in running Dick Nixon for the presidency again. Among the heads cool to Nixon are North Dakota's Senator Milt Young and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were once strong in Nixon's corner. Rocky has sent word to Bridges that he would like to lunch with him next time he visits Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Capital Notes: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Nobody in the Harvard Economics Department seems to be losing sleep over the Veritas Foundation. Some amusement, but mostly disinterest describes the university's reaction to the Foundation's latest move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veritas Study Provokes Amusement, Disin erest | 9/29/1960 | See Source »

What Nikita Khrushchev really saw of the U.S. was next to nothing. By his own order, he bypassed such monuments to U.S. achievement as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Long March | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...hearty despite the stringencies of its demands in the world of the barbecue pit and the P.T.A. There has been, he admits, "a well-known cascading-from orthodox to Conservative, and from Conservative to Reform groups. But Reform does not swell as it might, because of attrition into disinterest and loss of identity. Nor, curiously, does orthodoxy seem to diminish ... It is, if anything, on the rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Life of Mr. Abramson | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...significant results," says School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen, the best has been virtual absence of racial clashes for the past year or more. There have been few clashes in athletics, where skill is more important than prejudice. In social activities, such "dangers" as mixed dancing are avoided by student disinterest or discretion. At John Philip Sousa Junior High School (now 72% Negro), dances have been limited to the graduation prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quiet Along the Potomac | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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