Word: politicians
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...group which set this alltime registration record is the Community Service Organization. CSO is neither a Viva Kennedy, a Viva Nixon, nor a Viva any other politician outfit. CSO is strictly nonpartisan, and it saves its vivas strictly for human dignity, for the rights of oppressed minorities, for their speedy incorporation into all phases of the lifestream of the overall community...
...most successful politician.'' said Theodore Roosevelt, "is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice." By last week Presidential Candidates Nixon and Kennedy had said pretty much all there was to say, and had said it-with the aid of the ubiquitous microphone and the frequently repeated speech-in the loudest of voices. On Nov. 8, the nation would know which one had plumbed the hopes and fears of America more deeply. The preelection arithmetic (see box) ten days before the balloting indicated that it was Kennedy who had hit most...
...piece on Kennedy is a masterful, last-ditch attempt to play on the accumulated stated and unstated prejudices of the American electorate. Coming in the same issue as Time's critique of partisan columnists, it is doubly distasteful, Kennedy is portrayed as a vacillating politician getting by on looks: "There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him." The tired age question is dredged up again: "Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior...
William H. Meyor is a political anomaly. An articulate progressive in an often unintelligibly conservative state, he has managed to make his advanced ideas part of Vermont's everyday political discourse. A politician whose chief desire is to see the world attain peace with freedom, Meyer has expressed ideas that have been represented as ones which could lead to war. A man whose honesty no one questions, he has frequently been termed selfish...
...will have a substantial influence in the House of Representatives. The Grossman who have been again to vote with him--fearing the next may find his victory symbol. And observers of the political act those who doubt that a man of judge can find a place in elective politician could learn a new, reassuring learn from William Meyer's career