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...dismiss Kirk as merely a swinger who got lucky may be underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were...
...more realistic eyes than before. This profoundly affects the over-all Japanese attitude towards the China problem and towards all Asian problems. Officials of the Japanese government, who once seriously worried of the danger of a Chinese-American war, are now more optimistic because of the Revolution. They now dismiss the possibility of such a war and even dismiss the possibility of Chinese intervention in Vietnam now. Apparently the many elements which had composed the basic picture of China have been changing and with them the picture's color and texture have changed...
Occasionally the Center's programs makes headlines, but it prefers inconspicuous projects, like mapping the City's historical plaques. It would be easy to dismiss most of its work as trivial...
...Senseless Action." The Berkeley student government fired off letters to 14 regents who had voted to dismiss Kerr, saying that their action had been "senseless and illogical." The firing was later denounced at a rally of 7,000 students at U.C.L.A., which was addressed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who later said he felt "a sense of deep sadness" over Kerr's dismissal. Similar protest rallies attracted 6,000 students at Berkeley, 5,000 at the Santa Barbara campus, 3,500 at Riverside. The university's nine chancellors met in Los Angeles, pledged to continue Kerr...
Though today's pundits often dismiss Viet Nam as a little country of little strategic consequence, it was Viet Nam -then Indo-China-that played a major role in getting the U.S. into World War II. When Japan moved into the region in 1941, thereby gaining a commanding geographical position in South-east Asia-to say nothing of a wealth of rubber resources-the U.S. considered the situation threatening enough to freeze all Japanese assets. Japan's countermove came just four months later-at Pearl Harbor...