Word: politicians
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Crumbs into Cakes. Of course, there may be reason to wonder why a politician with any thought for his future would even want a place on the next G.O.P. national ticket. To be sure, Viet Nam and a skittish economy may considerably erode Lyndon Johnson's strength by 1968, and there are politicians who believe that the President's personal unpopularity could lead to his defeat. To Javits, whether Johnson is beatable or not is irrelevant. As he sees it, the G.O.P. is obliged to put up a strong fight if it is to lay a base...
...missed a comma. "I believe there will be progress," he exhorted the residents of Soweto, a black ghetto near Johannesburg. "Hate and bigotry will end in South Africa one day. I believe your children will have a better opportunity than you did." Unaccustomed to such solicitude from a white politician, the Sowetoans devoured Bobby's every word and seemed ready to consume the speaker as well. "They are so excited to see you," a schoolteacher explained, "they want to take a piece...
...medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's greatest industrial state, was pure Tammany. He once fled the country to escape a jail sentence for misappropriating public funds, and he seemed almost proud to be known as the politician who "builds while he steals...
...Whitlock has opened up lines of communication that never existed before," one City politician explains. The improved communications has combined with the University's larger size to yield some distinct benefits for both Harvard and the City's politicians. Explains one old-hand: "Politicians who used to be critical of Harvard and M.I.T. now spend a lot of their time perfecting their relations with the universities personnel directors to get jobs for their constituents." The dividends to Harvard are even greater...
...other to facilitate the constructions of Peabody Terrace), Harvard has been consistently successful. Some times the University has encountered some vocal opposition and delay but when the roll call has come the votes have always been there. This was not always the case. "Back in the thirties," recalls one politician "the University just didn't have the votes...