Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eugene McCarthy, re-examining his image after seven weeks of campaigning for the presidency as a peace candidate, concluded that he came across more as a poet than an electable politician. Accordingly, on a swing through California last week, the Minnesota Democrat broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
...touch with the mass of older people in Adzope is weak, and it really only shows in the occasional festivals and public rallies. August 7th, or any day when a politician passes through, Adzope sprouts orange-white-and-green flags, people dress up in their best, and dance troupes show off special costumes, songs, and folk dances. Someone makes a party speech--for the one party, the Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire--the sous-prefet shows off his glittering best uniform, party faithfuls collect medals, Adzope's wheezing brass band coughs the national anthem, and people go wild dancing...
...Oscar existed for attempted extermination of a presidential candidate, your "Romney Goes to War" [Jan. 5], should receive top award. Granted that George Romney is not a shrewd, accomplished politician-but that may be to his advantage. Many of us in Michigan respect him as a sincere Governor with integrity whose outstanding performance in rescuing our state from financial chaos is a matter of record...
...Massachusetts politician who has known him for nearly a decade said while watching him on television last month, "he always appears to be making a speech, even in an informal conversation with only one or two other people. It makes him seem insincere...