Word: northern
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Richard E. Neustadt has called this "urban populism." To the extent that it appeared this spring, this movement is probably one of the main reasons Kennedy met such modest success snaring delegates in northern industrial, non-primary states. Oldstyle political leaders not only feared the possibility of a President dealing actively with upstart urban alignments; they were also chary of Kennedy's rather pronounced enthusiasm for community action projects and increased private investment in ghetto self-development. Much of what Kennedy said was also directly threatening to rural political leaders who frequently rely on minimal voter participation...
...winged, 2,000-m.p.h. manned missile. Boring ahead faster than a rifle bullet, it takes pictures of astonishing clarity from as high as 80,000 feet. Over the panhandle and Laos, most of the monitoring is the task of the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing flying out of Udorn in northern Thailand. Its droop-nosed RF-4C Phantoms, unarmed and unescorted, shoot up to a cumulative seven miles of film on the 40 to 50 sorties that the 432nd flies each...
Some constitutional-law experts saw in the decision a new pragmatism, an emphasis on tangible results that can be read as a warning to many Northern de facto segregated schools. In any case, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole...
...third house" -the Southern-dominated House Rules Committee, which can stop almost any bill from reaching a floor vote. But as Author Wicker tells it, Kennedy thus learned too well that Government is a matter of "men, not measures." Seeking more support, he wooed Southern segregationists, and lost Northern-liberal respect in the process-most notably after he had succumbed to Roman Catholic pressure groups by offering federal aid to parochial schools in his education legislation. When the bills died in 1961, amid the Bay of Pigs disaster, says Wicker, Kennedy lost Congress-and at his death...
...that he could avoid a big land war by using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against the Southern enemy; it was also difficult to halt, for fear of handing Hanoi a psychological victory...