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The most articulate new spokesman for the Republican Party's Old Guard is Arizona's handsome U.S. Senator, Barry Morris Goldwater, 51. Individualist Goldwater, boss of four prospering Arizona department stores developed from a business started by a Jewish peddler grandfather, was an Army Air Forces pilot in...
Should the Democrats fail to name Jack Kennedy or some other Roman Catholic as one of their candidates, then religious considerations may influence Nixon's choice, and the chances of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, a Catholic, would be enhanced. Or, if Dick Nixon decides that a progressive-conservative...
Last week Charleston braced for the annual season of tourists (torsts), torrents of garden clubbers, northbound Florida winterers, southbound daughters of various revolutions, and an occasional English poet. The city and its outlying plantations never looked lovelier: after an unusually cold and wet winter, the azaleas and camellias preened in...
(Significantly, Goldwater was named last fortnight as the presidential choice of South Carolina's minuscule Republican Party.) Items from the dictionary: Air-What you hear [hair] with.
Ideological leader of the new Republican group was popular Department Store Owner Barry Goldwater, a 40-year-old in 1949 when he led a Good Government reform slate to take over a rickety Phoenix city government. Three years later he upset Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland in a Senate race...