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...good example of the shift was an editorial which appeared one morning last week in Eugene Pulliam's Arizona Republic, formerly a staunch defender of McCarthy: "The political obituary of . . . McCarthy . . . is being written in the news stories that greet-and disgust—Americans almost every morning these days . . . Here is a man who had a great opportunity for service to his nation and who is spoiling it miserably...
From the moment Adlai Stevenson stepped off the plane at the Miami airport last week, the politicos attending the Southern Democratic Conference began to eye him carefully. They noted that he never missed a chance to handshake his way through a crowd, or to greet a potential party fatcat. And they were convinced, as Stevenson delivered the conference's major speech at a $100-a-plate dinner, that they were listening to a candidate for 1956 who was getting ready to run on a strong anti-Eisenhower platform...
...Springs is not Ike's cup of tea, and he had to fight for the vacation he wanted: rest, golf, fresh air and privacy. When he and Mamie stepped off the Columbine at the moon-bathed Palm Springs Airport, a crowd of 3,000 was on hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting and turn the vacation into a chamber-of-commerce carnival were abruptly halted on a suggestion from the White House. The official welcoming ceremonies were brief, and the list of greeters was cut down (to the anguish of many California politicos...
...name, the European Union Movement. It had some new heroes: West Ger many's disenfranchised neo-Nazi Werner Naumann and U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy ("the only leader in America today showing strength, character and direction"), but the 800 screaming followers who gathered in the school auditorium to greet Mosley might have been waiting there ever since the late 1930s. There were the same blond bully boys, the same zoot-suited spivs, the same middle-aged women, and the same intellectuals ready to follow any leader raucous enough to give strength to their neuroses. On a table in the corner...
...answered the cop. "I greet him because it gives me pleasure to greet him, and especially to see his benevolent smile...