Word: leaderlessness
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Canada's ordinarily bland and imperturbable radio and TV network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reeled along last week, leaderless and groggy from cumulative misfortune. For 22 years almost nothing happened at the CBC; suddenly, strikes, temperament and scandal popped up all over...
...teenagers, the leather-jacket set long affected ducktail haircuts with lush sideburns, and early-to-bed, high school athlete types favored the crewcut or its level-roofed extreme, the flattop. Inevitably, such a division in the ranks, visible even to parents, had to go. The suave slobs in jackets-leaderless since Guitar-Whanger Elvis Presley played a command performance in an Army barbershop last March-began to let a little more of their hair be cut off. Their short-haired opposites took second looks at the fraternity boys home for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. Compromise result clearly evident last week...
Such segregationist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils concentrate unerringly on keeping the moderates silent and leaderless. Method No. 1 : In formers. One of the six men arrested in a Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister...
Party Leadership: President Eisenhower's longstanding reluctance to dramatize the record of the Republican Administration in political terms left the G.O.P. leaderless and disorganized, while the Democrats built up a two-to-one organizational lead in volunteer workers across the U.S. Then Vice President Richard Nixon set off on his no-stop campaign trip, gave state and local G.O.P. leaders the spark they needed. By last week, with Ike jumping into the campaign to assert his own brand of party leadership (see Republicans), Republican spirits were on the rise. At week's end, bone weary, with voice choked...
...Pollster Lubell, what all the conflict added up to was Republican confusion: "Although the Republicans are everywhere on the defensive, one gets the feeling that their potential strength is much greater than the voting trend indicates. In fact the Republican voting forces today seem like a leaderless army. Surprisingly large numbers of voters complain, 'We don't know what the Republican Party stands for.' Whether at this late date the President can answer that question may make the difference between a rout and a close election...