Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuned Embodiment. Like most northern congressional campaigns, the race in Michigan's Sixth District is a tossup. But in his fight to win, Chuck Chamberlain stands out-perhaps as much as any other beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it...
Again, Chamberlain has no time for the formal political rallies on which many candidates depend. "I think rallies are useless," he says. "The people who show up at rallies are already on my side, and I'm just plowing the same field over again. I have to spend my...
The best victories are the ones so well prepared that they come easy and seem effortless. Such a victory did Charles de Gaulle win last week. Within one month of earning his overwhelming election mandate, he used that triumph to put himself clearly on top, and clearly in charge, both...
De Gaulle did not move against the committees until the referendum gave him true legitimacy and an overwhelming public mandate. Early this month, when a pair of Algerian Moslem visitors privately reported to him that the Algiers Committee of Public Safety had already chosen a list of "approved Moslem candidates...
For nearly a month there had been a fresh wave of kidnapings and killings. Though the fighting that the U.S. Marines had been sent in to discourage had presumably ended with the election of an above-the-battle general, Fuad Chehab, as President, it quickly broke out anew. Chehab'...