Word: politicians
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What was really obvious, however, was that Wagner was talking like a politician, not like a responsible public official. In the U.S., a literacy test for voters has no meaning whatever unless it is a test of literacy in English. The laws are written in English, the governmental councils deliberate in English, and the newspapers and magazines that have substantial journalistic resources for searching out truth are published in English. Understandably, Wagner's suggestion aroused protests. Huffed the New York Times: "If Spanish-speaking persons are permitted to qualify in that language, what logic would justify denying similar exceptions...
...been made clear," said Rockefeller, "that the Republican Party is the party of civil rights." Later on, Washington's Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini angrily accused Rocky of "using the grave issue of civil rights as ammunition for political warfare." Retorted Rockefeller: "Everybody sitting around this table is a politician or he wouldn't be here...
...Europe's postwar order is based on anti-Communism as an article of faith: the conviction that the Communists are a treacherous, armed and somehow non-European enemy. That conviction began to falter with the changeover from Stalin, the "oriental despot," to Khrushchev, the table-thumping but jolly politician-and with the accompanying softening of Communist tyranny in Russia and the satellites. The test ban and what may follow will continue this process of persuading European voters that Communists-Moscow, if not Peking variety-can be lived with. Even Charles de Gaulle seems ready to think...
Last May 6,000,000 voters went to the polls to choose among 17 political groupings (including one brand-new faction, the Farmers' Party, led by a politician whose name is Koekoek, pronounced cuckoo). In the outcome, the dominant Catholic People's Party gained only one parliamentary seat, while the socialist Labor Party, the nation's second biggest, lost ground. Also involved in the jockeying for position: the right-wing Freedom and Democracy Party, the Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party, and another, like-minded Protestant faction, the Christian Historical Union...
...when ABC announced that Hagerty would now become a vice president in charge of corporate relations for the network's parent company, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc. In that post, he will most likely serve as a spokesman for A.B.-P.T. before Congress and the FCC, where a politician is a politician...