Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICHMOND NEWS LEADER: IN this debacle there were many losers, not the candidates alone, but the G.O.P. as a whole, Vice President Nixon as an individual and (let us face the grim truth) the South as a region...
...drowned in an otherwise all-Democratic tide in Massachusetts, see THE NATION, Moderate Mandate. ¶ Show how the least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect, see box, Election Scorecard. ¶ Give an intimate account of the sort of political organization that changed the face of the political map, see MINNESOTA, Victory by Organization. ¶ Find Republicans who thought they saw a new Moses, see REPUBLICANS, And Then There Were...
...more successful in finding young, attractive candidates nationwide. In Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, for example, the six newly elected Democratic Congressmen averaged only 42 in age, as against 60 for their Republican opponents. Republican Hatfield best explained the meaning of personality to his party: "Let's face it. We had some turkeys, reactionary turkeys. I would except Goldwater because he's a sensational personality. But race-for-race, it's the middle-of-the-road Republican, in communication with the people, who can win, and it seems to me that this is our key to the future...
...long, lonely night shift. It was Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President clenched his face in an immobile mask to hold back tears. When taps died away, he stepped forward and gently kissed Hazlett's widow. Then, with downcast eyes, he marched silently back to his waiting limousine...
...West, "a bold housing program," "jet-age" airport facilities, "courageous urban renewal," a mild antirackets labor law like Kennedy-Ives, outer-space exploration, "a consistent policy for Latin America," "bold, new, imaginative" foreign policies. He hinted at new attacks upon Administration hard-money policy ("We need to face up to the high interest rates which are slowing the needed growth of our economy"). Also on his target list in some form: Ezra Benson's farm policy, "which now costs 53? in federal subsidies for every dollar the farmer nets...