Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that she was married to Actor Melvyn Douglas, "whose real name is Hesselberg."* New York's Negroes (980,000) generally vote Democratic, but Kennedy lost some support among Negro leaders by putting Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, may have won some back now that Harlem's top politico, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, is campaigning for him. Nixon gained ground in Harlem by visiting Africa, by praising the Southern sit-ins, and by enlisting ex-Ballplayer Jackie Robinson for his staff. Puerto Ricans number 700,000 in the city, and one of their idols is Spanish-speaking Nelson Rockefeller...
While the Congo was a Belgian colony, 35-year-old Robert Kinda worked hard washing clothes in a Leopoldville laundry. He also did a few personal favors for one of the customers, Thomas Kanza, 27, the Belgian-educated son of a local politico...
Black Gold, Little Trickle. This patched up things on the surface but did not solve the deeper politico-economic sickness that has plagued pro-U.S. President Betancourt and opened him to charges of inmovilismo-do-nothingness. Although black gold blesses Venezuela with Latin America's highest per capita income ($875), half the 6,894,000 Venezuelans live and hunger in squalid shacks. They wonder why the riches do not trickle down, and many view Betancourt as ineffective compared to their mental picture of onrushing Cuba...
...bulk of Algeria's Moslems, including some who outwardly "collaborate" with France, continue to sympathize with the F.L.N. demand for independence. Higher wages for Moslem workers often help finance a bigger contribution to F.L.N. coffers, and time and again, French authorities have announced the destruction of the rebel "politico-administrative" organization in an Algerian town only to find it totally rebuilt within a few months...
Barry Goldwater's Conscience is not likely to win many disciples to the Republican Party in an election year when the middle of the road is already overcrowded. But his book serves notice that the Old Guard has new blood, that a hardworking, successful politico has put up his stand on the right side of the road and intends to shout for all he is worth as the parade goes...