Word: lodestar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little to choose from among the three candidates on fundamental issues, Humphrey by his tone and his loyalty to the Administration finds himself the sudden centrist; able to seek a Democratic coalition potentially as broad as F.D.R.'s. He is doing so, moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
Alabama's Governor George Wallace flew into Indianapolis last week in a state-owned Lockheed Lodestar deco rated with a Confederate flag and the slogan STAND UP FOR AMERICA. He had, he said, come to run against Democratic Governor Matthew Welsh "because I want to let the people have an effective way of opposing some of the trends going on in Washington." For Welsh, who is a favorite-son stand-in for President Johnson in Indiana's May 5th presidential primary, Wallace had only kind words. "I have the highest regard for Governor Welsh," he allowed...
...skills and dedi cation needed to deal with the staggering problems posed by overpopulation and underproduction. At the top of the pyramid is Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom the party acknowledges to be omnipotent and incapable of mistakes. The people are endlessly told that Mao is the sun, the lodestar, the living Buddha, and he is said to be far greater "than the empty, hypocritical and negative Jesus Christ." Peasants are taught to sing...
Died. Eleven executives of the Ashland Oil & Refining Co., of Ashland. Ky.. and their pilot and copilot, when the company's twin-engined Lockheed Lodestar spun into a pasture and burst into flames; near Ravenna, Ohio. Ashland is the nation's 20th largest oil company, with sales of $312 million last year; it was the worst industrial-aircraft accident in U.S. history...