Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn that being majority leader is quite another matter. Because he still has to contend with Dwight Eisenhower's great popularity, Johnson cannot permit White House-Senate relationships to become too strained. Yet he cannot be too soft toward the Administration for fear of antagonizing the liberal Northern Democrats. Finally, he must prevent a legislative deadlock, lest the Democrats be accused of conducting a do-nothing Congress...
...more populous northern half is being welded together with ruthless Communist efficiency; the southern or free half is rent by feuds, and impotently governed by its honest but ineffective Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Last week, in an effort to restore some order in South Viet Nam, President Eisenhower dispatched former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins to Indo-China as his special ambassador. It will be Joe Collins' task to try to resolve the feuding between Diem and his generals, to coordinate and overhaul all U.S. aid to the tortured nation, to combat "the dangerous forces...
...defeat probably was a relief to a good many national Democratic leaders, including some of his colleagues in the northern liberal wing of the party. Even as a humble Congressman, he played a prominent and highly disruptive role at the 1952 Democratic convention. The thought of Roosevelt at the 1956 convention, flushed with electoral victory, would have been enough to send the Southerners inquiring anxiously about the nearest exit. The peacemakers among the northern Democrats, who are attempting to ensure a united party in 1956, would not have been much happier about their prospects...
...kind of dress rehearsal for September 1956, when Mars will come closer (only 35 million miles away) than at any time between 1941 and 1971. This year it came fairly close, but it was too low in the southern sky to permit the great telescopes of the Northern Hemisphere to observe it effectively. Since there are few observatories in the Southern Hemisphere, most of the world's Mars-watchers are waiting impatiently...
...cherished the belief that he could negotiate an Asian "area of peace," guaranteed by Red China, in counterblast to the "trivial" Manila Defense Pact. But Nehru's area of peace, it seemed, was already coming unstuck: neighboring Nepal complained about Red China's infiltration of its northern Himalayas; Burma, worried by Communist guerrillas in its own country, wanted tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru's supporters, was put out by Red China's claim of jurisdiction over Indonesia's 3,000,000 Chinese. As Nehru proceeded on his way, paying...