Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nationally, the picture is less clear. Attempts to organize local Rockefeller groups in a dozen or more states continued last week, but there was little overt activity of significance. His supporters in Congress were considering circulating a petition among Capitol Hill Republicans urging him to become an official candidate. However, there was difficulty in lining up a group broad and deep enough to make such a call meaningful. To have a petition come only from the party's liberal wing and signed principally by Easterners might hurt Rockefeller more than help him. What he needs is a summons from...
...Little Loyalty. Joseph William Martin Jr. was born in North Attleboro, Mass., in an era of horse trolleys and self-made men. Son of a Scots blacksmith and an Irish lass, he peddled papers, passed up Dartmouth in favor of reporting local news, and later bought the paper. Politics came naturally in that era, and Joe Martin was a natural. Stubby and combative, as quick with an infectious grin as with a roundhouse right, little Joe's big break came in 1925, when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives after the man who had beaten...
Fully 95% of the 5,000 R.D. workers are now back in their hamlets, and local officials have moved quickly to care for refugees and begin reconstruction of houses. In Tay Ninh province, building materials and food supplies arrived as soon as the Communists were routed from Long My, and cash payments of $42 were made at once to each homeless family. The Communists made a major effort to cut the corps' road system, mostly by blowing up bridges, but all but one of the corps' major roads have been kept open, with no break lasting longer than...
...workers took to the street to protest the leniency shown by a military court to four top officers accused of criminal responsibility for the defeat by Israel in June. Egged on by leftist agents of Nasser's own Arab Socialist Union Party, the workers attacked a local police post, were driven off only with riot guns. Their cause was quickly picked up by students of Egypt's three major universities, who turned downtown Cairo into a battleground...
...setter of the art exhibit, appropriately enough, is that grand old Russian revolutionary and pioneer sculptor of the 1920s, Naum Gabo, 77, with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning and expenses are being borne by a dozen different local and state institutions (even Buffalo's bantam-sized 7,800-student state college got in the act by inviting Merce Cunningham and his dance company to perform two new works during a four-week stay). The festival committee is chaired by the Albright-Knox's director, Gordon Smith...