Word: goldwaterism
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Republican hopefuls were doing and saying the same things that they had been doing and saying for weeks. But there was still news in their activities -and the biggest of all was that Arizona's Barry Goldwater was running like the lower Gila River during a drought.
A drum and bugle corps turned out to greet Goldwater in Littleton, N.H. (pop. 3,355). And in Lancaster, N.H. (pop. 2,392), they put together a parade too-a squad of high school boys carrying red railroad flares, followed by a shaggy pony pulling a cart containing Barry, who...
Most recent polls in New Hampshire showed Goldwater still leading but steadily losing ground to other Republicans for the March 10 presidential primary. Well aware of this, Barry last week jauntily told reporters that a victory in New Hampshire was not really crucial to his getting the G.O.P. nomination next...
Nevertheless, he continued to talk a lot in New Hampshire. When he learned that Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro had ordered the water supply cut off from the U.S.'s Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Goldwater flailed out at the Johnson Administration: "This is another result of an indecisive foreign...
Wooden Touch. With that shot from the hip, Goldwater may well have hit his own foot. True, many people think that Castro's presence in the Western Hemisphere is intolerable and that he should be ousted-if necessary, even by an invasion of Cuba. But any such effort must...