Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning issues: Truman, McCarthy, time for a change, mink coats, depression, boys in foxholes and Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's own high-level campaigning. There are, however, some intense regional issues, e.g., the farm program in the Midwest, local unemployment problems in such states as Indiana and Michigan, segregation in the South...
...each week he adds to his preelection schedule of personal campaigning. Most prognosticating to date has the Democrats picking up momentum and moving into position to challenge seriously the whole Republican ticket. But the fact seems to be that, at midpoint, the Republicans are doing well at the national level, not so well at the local level. Last week top G.O.P. campaign strategists met in Washington, saw no reason to change their basic plans. Reason: in the month before election Dwight Eisenhower is clearly in the lead...
...week's end the Vice President returned to Washington, reported to the President on the mood of the U.S. as he had found it (they like Ike), on his own behind-the-scenes prodding of some lax and lagging G.O.P. precinct-level organizations, on his belief that a presidential visit would help some edgy states, e.g., California. The same night Nixon staged a nationwide TV press conference, a bright stunt that ranged eight newsmen against him in eight U.S. cities by remote TV pickups. He distressed professional newsmen because he turned the questions into take-off points for snippets...
...relations between nations was sometimes called the thaw. For a while the only visible manifestation of the thaw was a general fading, ungluing, cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world it has showed itself in the nagging vitality of NATO, Iceland's decision to get rid ot U.S. troops, the division and rancors among the allies over Cyprus, Formosa, North Africa and Suez...
...last quarter-century, however, British manufacturers have cowered behind high tariff walls and foreign competitors have imposed retaliatory tariffs that have prevented British goods from finding mass markets abroad. The result: Britain, drained by the war, has been unable since to raise her economy much above subsistence level...