Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article, "Academe's Exhausted Executives" [Sept. 27], left me with feelings of mixed emotions. Their frustration is understandable. Someone has realistically said that a college president constantly walks a picket fence, not knowing when he will fall and be impaled. The dangers of the job and the limitless hours it demands have always existed. But when students protest against war, racism and poverty, they expouse concerns which are basic to our existence. Our task becomes that of channeling their convictions into constructive action. As one who has sat in the chair for 25 years, I contend that...
...Party as it is now constituted." The G.O.P.'s far right might be driven to merge with the Wallace faction. Other Republicans would then have little choice but to coalesce with middleroad Democrats. The extreme Democratic dissidents, without hope of controlling the party, would merge with the New Left to form a third party...
Disaster Area. For the Democrats, it has become obvious that, win or lose, they are left with the problem of marking out new constituencies. After nearly 40 years, the coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt is in the final throes of disintegration, a process that was slowed down but not halted by Lyndon Johnson's 1964 victory...
Mickey Stanley singled to left, and Kaline cracked a single to center, scoring McAuliffe. Washburn headed for the showers. Reliever Jaster pitched to only three men--Norm Cash, who singled in Stanley, Willie Horton, who walked, and Northrup, who did his thing...
...really, they were too futile to be scary. As most people left the Common, they gathered in mini-rallies all over the grass. The TV men turned their klieg lights on them and they cavorted with gusto for the cameras, led in chants by their cheer-leaders...