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Sir: Upon reading "Who Are the Goldwaterites?", I just leaned back in my chair and sobbed. Month after frustrating month, I have been trying to get people to understand that we are not fanatic crackpots, but sincere and concerned citizens who have a beautiful dream of the greatness this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

Scull's figures may be open to dispute, but his deep gloom over the Goldwater nomination was by no means an isolated phenomenon. For just as the Senator from Arizona evokes an almost fanatic devotion among his followers, he stirs a feeling of horror among many who disagree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Republicans: The Disenchanted | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

Although his valet, Miles, was among the wedding guests, none of Ambler's family was present. He had explained that his 68-year-old mother was too aged and frail to make the journey. The groom's uncle, Norman Ambler, who breeds dogs at Cap d'Antibes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: The Princess & the Trucker | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Bleacher seats went for as much as 30 soles ($1.00) apiece, twice the regular rate and equivalent to a full day's pay for many a Peruvian laboring man. By game time, 50,000 fanatic soccer fans had crushed into Lima's National Stadium to howl for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: A Crashing of Mountains | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Reign in Spain. Carlism began in 1833, when King Ferdinand VII, dying without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: A Prevalence of Pretenders | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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