Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is Viet Nam, of course, that remains the most urgent problem. Nixon is expected to announce soon another reduction in U.S. combat troops in South Viet Nam. The inside betting now is that by January the President will have withdrawn a total of 125,000 servicemen ?nearly a...
"I am no Whig," John Kennedy once said disdainfully. What he meant was that unlike his predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, and the 19th century Whigs William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore, he intended to be an activist President. Richard Nixon is something of a Whig, by choice as well as by...
Even though they boasted some of baseball's most gifted players, the 1968 Minnesota Twins finished a dismal seventh in the American League. Recalls Catcher John Roseboro: "This was not a happy ball club. The guys couldn't get together with each other or the front office. Someone...
In a recent doubleheader at Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins subjected the faltering Detroit Tigers, the defending world champions, to a humiliating demonstration of speed and muscle. Tiger Ace Mickey Lolich, whose won-lost record was 14-2 before the game, lost the opener, 5-2. In the...
If such confrontation is to be avoided in the long run, along with even deeper division between the races, for gotten America must be remembered in ways that unite rather than anger. Lower-middle-class whites need to see that their long-range interest lies not in defending the status...