Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Nixon is not merely a triumph for the man, but for the common sense of the Republican party's leadership. Long before President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, the whispering campaign against Nixon was, under way. In fact, it was initiated about eighteen months ago by certain extremist groups which resented bitterly his exposure in 1949 of Alger Hiss. It seems odd to suggest that any one should be disqualified for high office just because he offended his political opponents, but that was the main basis for a rash of articles and broadcasts from Democratic party sympathizers...
Despite pressure from all sorts of extremist groups on the University, the Lucy incident has not directly involved academic freedom. Several professors are known to be ardent integrationists and to disagree heartily with the University's expulsion of Miss Lucy. None of these men have been subject to any reprisal, however, and most of them feel that the University has protected its faculty well...
...grown increasingly critical of the Administration, which now finds it unfriendly in tone and attitude. The Post has applauded Eisenhower personally, as well as parts of his Administration's program (farming, foreign aid education, fiscal policy). At the same time, it has condemned Republicans whom it labels "extremist," e.g., Vice President Nixon, has criticized what it considers "disgraceful excesses" of the loyalty-security program, and has hit often and hard at what it calls the tidelands oil and timber "giveaways." It has also sharply needled (but sometimes praised) John Foster Dulles on foreign policy...
Tunisia is represented in Cairo by Salah ben Youssef, exiled leader of the extremist wing of the Neo-Destour, who hates his fellow Party Leader Habib Bourguiba for accepting "interdependence" with France. Last week France granted Tunisia independence, and next week Tunisia will hold its first election. But in Tunisia's south ern mountains Salah ben Youssef's supporters flared into revived rebellion...
Harwood will represent the conservative Southern view toward the N.A.A.C.P., that it is an extremist group trying to undermine long-established southern traditions. However, Harwood, although an indigenous Southerner, has emphasized that he does not personally agree with this conservative southern attitude and will speak for it merely as an objective observer...