Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing . . . We're not going to the convention simply to validate decisions someone else has made in some back room in Washington...
...sought with some success to collect Robert Kennedy's dispersed forces and thereby show his appeal across party lines. Last week, for example, he won endorsements from Martin Luther King Sr. and a number of other Negro leaders, including militants. He inveighs against the "Old Politics" and promises "new leadership" to appeal generally to voters groping for a guide. Just how effective that appeal can be was shown when a comely Illinois delegate told him during his visit to Chicago early in the week: "Governor, I'm a member of three minorities?I'm a woman, a Negro...
...true among the young. Last week, when his staff sought to cut costs by "furloughing" 75 workers, most of them youngsters, the majority of them insisted on staying on without even the usual meal allowances. McCarthy draws much of his support from those hungry for a new kind of leadership, from some Republicans, and from independents of both conservative and liberal bent. For many in and around the New Left, an anti-war candidate sympathetic to the disinherited and leary of an overly powerful executive is close to ideal...
Still, for all the talk of "polycentrism" in Communist leadership, Moscow has never really abandoned Nikolai Bukharin's notion that "centripetal tendencies" would one day unite world Communism under the Kremlin banner. Now the Czechoslovaks not only threaten to speed the breakup of Eastern Europe but propose a top-to-bottom spiritual reordering of the Communist way of life as well. Says British Kremlinologist Tibor Szamuely: "Russia is perfectly correct in interpreting the Czechoslovak experiment as something that will lead that country into a non-Communist democracy. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe is at stake...
...fact, the top issue of the campaign may not be any kind of vague diplomatic or legislative program--although the candidates try hard to differentiate themselves here--but what a Dedham real estate man terms "strong, trustworthy leadership." Voters, as a whole, seem less outraged by Mayor Lindsay's anguished call that "we've gotten off the track" than by drift in Vietnam, dabbling with inflation, and shilly-shallying on riots. Lyndon Johnson's oft-affirmed practice of seeking a high middle ground has gotten him--and men like Nixon and Humphrey--in more hot water than the grinding poverty...