Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...based partly upon an absence of new declarations in the G.O.P. ranks. Nelson Rockefeller, whom top Democrats regard as the most formidable threat to Lyndon Johnson next year, professes with diminishing credibility that he is not interested in being President. More important, Nixon has gained widespread acquiescence to the idea of his candidacy. Party leaders, many of them indebted to Nixon for his herculean campaign labors, have come to view him as an acceptable candidate who at least would not sunder the party as Barry Goldwater did three years ago-even though some doubt that he could...
...National Farmers Organization, having staged its own market boycotts, now calls for collective bargaining to raise farm prices, and is getting encouragement from Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. Charles Shuman of the nation's largest farm group likes the idea too, so long as it is free of Government interference, but this is about his only point of agreement with Freeman. As the American Farm Bureau Federation elected Shuman to his seventh term as president, he called for an end to all federal farm controls. Free man said that "fang and claw" marketing would "cut farm income a third...
This "Classic" was organized two years ago by St. Paul citizens who wanted something "big time" to match the sports attractions landing in twin rival Minneapolis. For three years the idea has theoretically been to match the best teams in the East with the best in the West, but this is the first year the promoters have come close. Like most sports promotion ventures in their infancy, however, finances have also been a major consideration, and for "best," one must often read "team with the lowest price tag that will be a good draw...
...highest level of the Administration whose sole purpose would be long range planning. Although the ultimate decisions would remain in the President's hands, this panel could propose solutions to crisis situations based on a detached view of the long-term national interest. Reischauer said he had mentioned the idea to several Faculty members, but had not yet made an effort to contact Washington, since he feels such an innovation would have to be the work of a newly-elected President...
...good folk music or jazz--even on the FM band. The one noble exception to the dismal norm is the Educational outlet, WGBH-FM. But even WGBH confines itself to classical music, and information-education programs. In the field of musical entertainment there hasn't been a fresh creative idea on Boston's commercial radio scene in the last decade...