Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election lay in the politically discriminating voter, better informed than ever before about personalities and issues. Long ago convinced that the presidential candidate of his choice would take care of such national issues as peace and prosperity, the voter exercised decisive power in choosing between state and local candidates without regard for party labels, political bosses or popular coattails. That voter changed all the equations of U.S. politics, for now and tomorrow...
...memorable fact of 1956 was not that the Republican Party did badly or that the Democratic Party did well. It was that in state after state, district after district, town after town, voters ignored party affiliations to elect candidates of individual local merit (or to defeat candidates of individual demerit...
Clobbered Clowns. As they made their decisions, even voters in the most hidebound areas jumped traditional party lines in pursuit of their local or regional interests. Kansas Republicans, fed up with G.O.P. factionalism, named Democrat George Docking governor over Warren Shaw (who suffered the additional liability of charges that he had taken kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state). In Republican Iowa, voters resented G.O.P. Governor Leo Hoegh's move-fast, high-tax program (TIME, Oct. 22), and elected Democrat Herschel Loveless. In West Virginia, corruption charges against the outgoing Democratic state administration resulted in the election of Republican...
...Angeles' American Institute of Family Relations. Popenoe pointed out that people get married in a haphazard way, then drew up a questionnaire of 32 items that affect marital relations (sex, race, religion, politics, weight, height, pets, drinking, preferences for double or twin beds, etc.). Linkletter put ads in local papers asking people over 21 who hankered for a mate to get in touch with him. To the more than 4,000 who replied, he dispatched the questionnaires...
Perhaps the most noticable change is the improvement in the Orchestra; the rough spots are now few and far between. With either cast local music lovers can be assured of a beguiling performance...