Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mining engineer may not invite the wife of a Mexican fisherman for tea, but she lives two doors away, she haggles in the same market for the same kind of food, and when they meet on the street, Doña Margarita greets Doña Margaret as a neighbor...
...stated flatly that "no man in the White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
What has happened that these things should be possible? One thing, certainly, is that the sense of community has been lost in the bigness and bureaucracy of big-city life. In small-town America, people wanted neighbors for a defense against loneliness; in big-city America, people feel that neighbors are merely crowding in on them and threatening their privacy. Nobody knows his neighbor-and doesn't want...
...Ottawa, Canada's capital, foreign correspondents are just about as rare as palm trees. There are only nine: one from Britain, five from Canada's next-door neighbor, the U.S.-and curiously, three from Russia. Why this heavy Soviet news focus on a government not regarded as of prime interest to Russian readers? If Ottawans wondered, last week Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson supplied an answer. He ordered one of Russia's three Ottawa-based newsmen expelled...
...only one way in which Lodge could be stopped in Oregon, and that is through an all-out Nixon campaign. "Dick Nixon could field an organization yet that could put on a professional-type campaign," says one G.O.P. official. "People here identify with him. He's a former neighbor. There's a certain parochial geographic factor; it's latent and it could be stimulated." Elmo Smith agrees: "If Nixon came in, he'd eat at all of them some. He would pick up quite a bit of the middle-road or slightly conservative vote. Lodge would...