Word: juggernauts
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Like a mighty political juggernaut, the President's train plowed through the South last week. All observers (and even some of the principals) agreed that the President left in his wake the wreckage of the anti-fourth term movement...
...clues to the possible invasion points which had been "pretty well settled" at Casablanca. Amateur strategists, taking a hint from Winston Churchill's visit to Turkey (TIME, Feb. 8), speculated over an invasion of the Balkans-a drive similar to the Allied campaign which helped crack the German juggernaut in 1918. These were speculations which the nation was willing to leave to the masters of high strategy...
...picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest in the South Sea Islands, where its violent motion is dulled, and it lapses into Maugham triteness, replete with tropical nights, women, and disease...
Meanwhile colleges and college students are left, almost without plans at the mercy of a new juggernaut draft bill. The ERC is now closed and its promised reopening for those in special training may very well result in the delay, the arguments, and the local draft board whims that characterized the previous inadequate Selective Service system. Meanwhile draft boards are hot on the trail of 'teen-agers who may be turned into infantry privates instead of valuable technicians because of this gap in the planning...
...Bloc. But in the Senate there was a man with the courage of conviction, a man from a heavily agricultural State, and worse, a man running for reelection this year, Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat. Senator Brown set himself in the path of the farm-bloc juggernaut. The 250-odd farm lobbyists had the votes-but Senator Brown had logic and virtue on his side...