Word: politicoes
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...least those in power have become convinced--that the way to win the future is not through the arms race. It is therefore no longer profitable for them to continue the arms race. They would like to keep a limited nuclear force and pursue the struggle in the politico-economic realm...
...cruelly kept attacking the aging (and currently jailed) Communist firebrand David Siqueiros, and he bluntly replied: "For the same reason that the students of Caracas attacked Dictator Pérez Jiménez." Siqueiros, he said, was a "comic dictator with the intolerant habits of a totalitarian politico." He insisted that while Rivera had turned out a few masterworks in his time, he had eventually sunk to producing "assembly-line paintings to fill the bags of American tourists...
...native of Kansas City, Kans.. McManus trained to write of politico-economics at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.. where he graduated cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1956, at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he took his master's degree in 1958, and during a year as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He joined TIME'S staff in 1959 and wrote the first story of Britain's desire to join the Common Market in 1961 (Aug. 11). From then on, as the Common Market began...
...number of vigilantes find it offensive to discover Communist willow baskets creeping into fine American homes, that's their business, of course. The curious thing about all of this is Woolworth's new-found politico-economic consciousness. It took, after all, years of sit-ins and picketing, thousands of letters and even some jail sentences, to get the chain store to integrate its lunch counters all over the country. Stupid anti-Communist gestures evidently give Woolworth's more serious pocketbook jitters than do widespread movements for expanded democracy and civil rights here at home...
...seasoned politico will tell you that the American voter is hard to pin-down: sometimes he wants virtue in a candidate, sometimes glamor, sometimes innocuousness. Like the child of a land of infinite variety that he is, he tires easily and unpredictably of one political goody, and is wont to pass on with appalling fickleness to a new idol...