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Powell bowed to Eisenhower's "greatest contribution" in the civil-rights field, but made it clear that one reason for his switch was that he was piqued with Adlai Stevenson for snubbing him. Most Republicans were aware that their convert is a vari-plumed politico who in the past has been found on the left, center and right of some issues. But three inescapable facts emerged from Powell's switch: 1) Lightly as Negro intellectuals may regard Powell, he is a politician of indisputable influence. He has served six consecutive House terms, is pastor of one of Harlem...
...helping of political attention he has received since upsetting Tom Dewey for the presidency in 1948. He was in Chicago less than three hours before he began cutting into the buttery era of good feeling with a sharp knife. Then, with all his influence as ex-statesman and master politico, he plumped for New York's Governor Averell Harriman for the presidential nomination, gave his ex-presidential word that Harriman's experience could best serve the party and the nation. He spurned Front Runner Adlai Stevenson with some thing close to contempt when he announced that this...
...school-is-out mood permeated even election-year politics. Most U.S. voters seemed sure that Ike would run again and win again. Republicans were so sure that they could enjoy politico-medical jokes ("Have you heard that the Democrats are demanding equal time on the stethoscope?"). Last week there were increasing signs that the accepted view of the President's intentions was well founded, that Ike would indeed be a candidate. Even the working organization Democrats, consciously or not, were enveloped in the mood, were acting quite unlike Democrats (see below...
Unhealthy Prognosis. In Chicago Democratic Chairman Paul Butler purpled over the unequivocal approval of a re-election campaign given by Ike's surgeon, Major General Leonard D. Heaton, a scant ten hours after the operation (TIME, June 18). Butler condemned Republicans for practicing a "new science of politico-medicine." In Chicago Dr. David Allman, who last week was chosen president-elect of the American Medical Association, burbled (without examining any of the subjects) that the President would now be "in better physical condition than any of his opponents-Republican or Democratic-have been at any time in their lives...
...intellectual began to face one additional problem. If in public affairs the intellectuals seem to have so little effect today, says Social Scientist David Riesman, it is "rather more by their own feelings of inadequacy and failure than by direct intimidation." In the '303, the intellectual had a politico-social program to offer. But the "discontented classes" have risen, and though still discontent, their wants, says Riesman, "are much less easily formulated . . . They must continually seek for reasons explaining their unrest-and the reasons developed by intellectuals for the benefit of previous proletariats are of course quite irrelevant...