Word: politicians
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...Southern states in 1952 and five in 1956. Richard Nixon won three in 1960 and polled 4,700,000 votes in the South - only 400,000 less than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...
...provincial party official in Khrushchev's Ukraine; a decade later he became President of the Soviet Union, the job he now holds. In the past, the post has been largely ceremonial, although its character could well change with the man. Brezhnev is a dynamic speaker and agile politician. In the first months following Khrushchev's death, he and Kozlov might well govern as a duumvirate, sharing state and party control, until the dictatorship again forms its natural pyramid and there is room for only...
...indeed a joy to hear about a man such as Governor Rockefeller [June 15]. It has been a long time since we have heard a state politician advocating states' rights who doesn't mean: "Keep your bureau-pickin', big-Government hands off our corrupt and inefficient local mess...
...most important and the most left-wing of these neutralists is Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena, a bookseller and politician who nurses a grudge against the U.S.. both for the previous machinations of the CIA and for alleged slights at the hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos...
Source of Stability. Once again, Franco had gone into action at the first sign that the myriad opposition groups might start operating in concert. Sighed a Spanish politician as the feeble move toward combined opposition was crushed: "In Spain, there are many little streams of politics. In other countries, they form into rivers. But here there are no rivers." For this reason alone, many Spanish