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In Texas, many Mexican-Americans deserted their Democratic habits, or simply stayed away from the polls, to help elect Republican Senator John Tower, as a protest against the conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW MELTING POT | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Above all, as one analyst puts it, "fear is disappearing." Save for the Negroes and the Puerto Ricans, most minorities no longer feel beleaguered. And therefore their need to cling together and seek out a protector who will tell them what to do is diminishing. Says Illinois State Representative Abner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW MELTING POT | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Sure enough, when Zhivkov and Brezhnev raised the hint of a conference again last week, they came under a barrage of counterfire. Snapped Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu: "Nothing should be done to deepen the divergencies and increase the threat of a split." The Italian and North Korean delegations were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Barraged Balloon | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Honesty & Openness. A man of considerable wit and charm, Pike inspires intense devotion among many of those who have worked with him. "I am willing to fight for him forever. He is a great modern prophet," says Architect George Livermore, a trustee of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Cambridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic or Prophet? | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

When the old Imam Ahmad ("Ahmad the Devil") ruled Yemen, justice was swift-and final. Enemies were decapitated and their heads carried around town on long poles. Lesser offenders lost their hands or feet. Last week General Abdullah Sallal, leader of the Egyptian-backed regime that overthrew the Ahmad dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: In the Old Style | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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