Word: foe
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Johnson might not be able to resist the temptation to play kingmaker in next year's Senate race. Democrat Ralph Yarborough, an old L.B.J. foe, is up for reelection, and two possible opponents, Republican Representative George Bush and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, have both been out to the ranch. So have two old cronies, Federal Judge Homer Thornberry, whom Johnson unsuccessfully nominated for the Supreme Court last year, and Frank Erwin, a longtime intriguer in Texas Democratic politics...
...Indira over the past two years has grown increasingly impatient with the old guard's conservative approach. Last month the quarrel flared into the open. Determined to trim Indira's sails, the Syndicate selected Sanjiva Reddy, 56, speaker of the lower house of Parliament and a longtime foe of the Prime Minister's, as the Congress Party's official nominee for the presidency.* Mrs. Gandhi responded by ramming through the nationalization of 14 major Indian banks. At the same time, she forced the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a Syndicate stalwart...
...recollection of these words evoked bitter irony last week. Kennedy's career was threatened not by a violent enemy or a political foe but by a scandal that revealed a shocking lapse of judgment and control...
USUALLY REGARDED as the chief foe of the universities, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci makes frequent speeches urging that Harvard and M.I.T. be, in effect, thrown out of Cambridge to some other place, say Waltham. Vellucci doesn't have the slightest chance of doing this, of course, and might not even want to, but his advocacy of such action strikes responsive chords in his East Cambridge supporters. Even in normal times, which these are not, politics in the City are apt to be heavily charged with rhetoric; the passions inherent in the rent control issue were amplified by this political style...
Much congressional reaction was bitter, and it seemed evident that he had hardened opposition to his Safeguard ABM plan into the bargain. Said Senator James Pearson, a Kansas Republican and an ABM foe: "I disagree with the President. I don't think it's isolationism to oppose excessive military spending." Some Democratic Senators were more abrupt. Said Albert Gore of Tennessee: "It sounded like the old Nixon I used to know." But Nixon won support from Louisiana's Russell Long and Virginia's Harry Byrd Jr. Noted Byrd: "I think he said some things which needed...