Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pickrick Drumsticks. Democratic strategists made no secret of their fear that the outbursts could help trim their majorities in November. "If the rioting doesn't fade away-indeed, if there's renewed violence in the streets-it will hurt us," declared Vice President Hubert Humphrey as he stumped California and three other Western states. Just how much it might hurt Democratic prospects was demonstrated on the other side of the continent the same day. In Georgia, moderate former Governor Ellis Arnall entered a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination as a heavy favorite against Lester Maddox, a strident...
Unpredictable. The economy also is in the bottom drawer. "If any national issue works against the Democrats-and I'm not sure any will-it will be high prices in supermarkets," says Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor Patrick Lucey, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. But unparalleled prosperity should help Democrats at least as much as inflation hurts them. Outside the South, where Democrats are scrambling to avoid identification with him, Lyndon Johnson also is the subject of considerable conversation without real ly being an issue. The fact is that a President's popularity-or lack...
...Reagan got a job as a sports announcer for a couple of Iowa radio stations. He had a crack ling delivery-so intense that he could keep his listeners enthralled with his account of a distant baseball game that Reagan would follow from the studio with the help of cryptic messages from a ballpark telegrapher and a fertile imagination...
Kuchel refused to help Reagan, Christopher's own top campaign advisers joined the nominee's crew right after the primary. Dozens of leftover Rockefeller-for-President crusad ers came aboard and, of course, so did plenty of Goldwater fans...
...overcome the inertia which our present ignoirance about crime imposes on attempts at reform? Like the rest of nature, the human brain abhors a vacuum. If we do not help people move toward an understanding of how complex the issues and the facts in this field are, they will continue to think in terms of meaningless and often destructive oversimplifications. It will be difficult to get support for the process of change if discussion of issues is confined to whether to be for or against the Supreme Court, whether to be tough or soft on criminals, whether to support...