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True enough, a New South has been proclaimed in every generation since Journalist Henry Grady publicized the term after Reconstruction. In 1880 Poet Sidney Lanier envisioned an agrarian Utopia: "The New South means small farming ... meat and bread for which there are no notes in bank ... and grass at nothing a ton." In 1951 Historian C. Vann Woodward decided that the "New South is not a place name as is New England, nor does it precisely designate a period, as does the Confederacy. It vaguely sets apart those whose faith lies in the future from those whose heart is with...
Nixon, by contrast, seized on the topic to proclaim: "I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President ... It makes you realize that whoever is President is going to be a man that all the children of America will either look up to or will look down to. And I can only say that I am very proud that President Eisenhower restored dignity and decency and, frankly, good language to the conduct of the presidency of the United States." The Nixon tapes, of course, later showed just how self-righteous that...
...stage is set for a bruising grille-to-grille marketing battle. Superficially, GM seems to have picked an odd year to proclaim that less is more. During the 1976 model run, consumers, who had been choosing smaller cars ever since the late 1973 Arab oil embargo, unexpectedly shifted back to the bigger models...
...widespread preoccupation at the conference, however. Laos and Viet Nam excoriated Indonesia for its recently ratified military acquisition of East Timor (TIME, June 14). An increasingly aggressive North Korea issued strident demands that the U.S. withdraw its defense forces from South Korea. Libya's Gaddafi threatened to proclaim a "balance sheet" of member countries that, in his view, "leaned toward imperialism." Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, usually a quiet-spoken man, gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required," he said, "in the following...
Ford and his strategists assessed the Reagan move accurately and with caution. Says one insider: "We saw it as a dangerous gamble that Reagan would not have made if he were not behind and worried, but we sure didn't proclaim it the political faux pas of the century right away." Indeed, the President's aides expressed some sympathy for Reagan, who they concede has run a strong, issue-oriented campaign. "I feel a little sorry for the Governor," explained a Ford assistant. "There was no way he could catch up. He had to roll the dice...