Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politician sat in his party headquarters in Ottawa, glowering furiously as a proposal was presented to the national executive committee suggesting that he step down after eight years as leader of Canada's Conservatives. At last John Diefenbaker, 69, rose to speak. "I will not have it!" he roared. "That is all there is to it!" A few minutes later, his supporters rejected the proposal by a narrow 55-52 vote...
Shifting with the Wind. Canadians know Diefenbaker as a skilled politician, a superb speechmaker and campaigner. Preaching that one-party domination was bad for Canada, the persuasive prairie lawyer led his party to a surprising victory in 1957, breaking 22 years of Liberal rule. Yet in six years as Prime Minister he managed to get himself into a series of unnecessarily bitter squabbles with the U.S. over nuclear defense commitments, failed to fire up Canada's economy, and proved to be an imperious, eccentric administrator whose policies seemed to shift with the wind over Ottawa...
...back for 43 curtain calls after the London première of the Royal Ballet's new production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The love story backstage was more poignant than Shakespeare's tale. In the wings, from his stretcher, Fonteyn's husband, Panamanian Politician Roberto Arias, 46, watched, still paralyzed from the chest down by the bullets pumped into his spine by a frustrated office seeker in Panama last June...
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act empowered the Government to stop aid to school administrations refusing to sign a desegregation pledge, many Southerners were talking as truculently as Louisiana Politician Leander Perez. "Our children are not for sale for any filthy, tainted federal bribes," he said. But the defiance will cost his Plaquemine Parish some $200,000 this year, and there are by now few other Southern areas willing to give up that kind of money. With the pledge deadline coming up on March 3, the rights act is rapidly imposing the desegregation that 75% of the South...
...center of the snowball was Howard J. (Howie) Phillips '62, president of the then extant Student Council, a 32-member version of the present 24-man HCUA. Phillips was the epitome of the student politician. Besides his post in the Student Council, he was a bigwig in the Harvard Young Republicans, college chairman of the Massachusetts Young Republicans, a founder of the Young Americans for Freedom, and head of the Youth for Nixon-Lodge in Massachusetts for the 1960 campaign. Several months before, Phillips had spoken at the fifth anniversary dinner of the National Review. One CRIMSON article...