Word: re-establish
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HUBERT HUMPHREY has just two months to overcome his image as Lyndon Johnson's servitor and re-establish his own individuality. Yet, instead of staking out a creative and specific program of his own that would help him to do so, the Vice President seems prepared to wage his campaign on another man's record: Richard Nixon...
...given the G.O.P. an exciting and historic chance as well. Not since 1952 has the party in power been so vulnerable. Even without an Ike like figure atop their lead elephant, the Republicans have both the opportunity and the will to reoccupy the White House in January and to re-establish credentials that they have not held since Herbert Hoover...
Meanwhile, the principal challenge to overwhelmingly middle-class Urban Leaguers is to re-establish communications with the ghetto. Blacks from New Orleans slums listened blankly to lectures on their problems from league staffers at workshops organized during the convention. "We've got to realize that we're not middle class at all," confessed Lonnie King of the Health, Education and Welfare staff in Atlanta, "but black...
...guard-post on a hill (dubbed "the ice-cream parlor" by the U.N. side) so as to have the highest building at Panmunjom. When the U.N. command took away the altitude superiority by erecting a two-story building, North Korea put a star atop the ice-cream parlor to re-establish its height advantage by a couple of inches. U.N. guards at Panmunjom are mostly U.S. military police, chosen for their size and brawn to tower over the smaller North Korean MPs. When they pass each other, there are spates of slanging, spitting and even slugging. Each side delivers choice...
...other hand, a narrow victory might not be enough to re-establish his authority. And anti-De Gaulle feelings, now largely the province of the liberal, the youthful, and the workingman, could spread in startling ways. The angry days of May have probably loosed all the diverse special interests and political frustrations bottled up for a decade. Unions, now that they have learned their strength, are likely to go on wresting both managerial prerogatives and higher pay from the patronat?the owners?whose power has remained fairly unchallenged under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from...