Word: frontiersman
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...engaged in a tough election battle, and Democrats are concerned about losing his seat. Former Gov. Milward Simpson, whom Hickey defeated for the governorship in 1958, is trying for a political comeback and has decided on a very conservative approach to national affairs. Although no flaming liberal, reluctant New Frontiersman Hickey presents Wyoming voters some contrast with Simpson's Goldwaterism...
...There were 16 pre-theater dinner parties. Any New Frontiersman who did not give or attend one might just as well start packing his bags. Some 60 guests entered the L.B.J. ranch (Spring Valley division) under a spotlighted marquee, supped on beef, beans and brownies. Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy led the list at the French embassy, where Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand served a magnificent buffet with champagne. Two Kennedy sisters, Pat and Jean, were among the diners at the Douglas Dillons. There was hot crab meat for 26 at the Paul Nitzes, beef stroganoff...
...years of starved winters and bloody springs wore on, each of the living had his dead. Bitterness between frontiersman and Indian, and between patriot and Tory, passed the bounds of sanity. West of the mountains, there was general approval when a frontiersman who had been living with the Indians murdered his Cherokee wife and children to get the bounty payment for their scalps...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that his successor be a Jew). Besides, as one knowledgeable New Frontiersman candidly put it, "Goldberg wanted the job badly.'' It is always risky to predict the ideological direction a man may take when he dons the robe. Old New Dealer Frankfurter, for one. came to stand as a judicial conservative, in the sense that he tended to interpret the Supreme Court's powers...
...businessmen are concerned by the increasing leftism of Premier Fanfani and the nationalization of the electric power industry. Italy's industrial output is a remarkable 12% higher than a year ago, but manufacturers' new orders are slumping. Top Italian Economist Livio Magnani talks like a New Frontiersman: "We are going through a period of stagnation on high economic and industrial levels...