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...Champagne Campaign." So the contenders are out in droves. Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Nassau County, was the first to enter the race, in February. Samuels, 46, and Roosevelt, 51, joined him last week. Samuels, an articulate campaigner brimming with reformist zeal, is known as "the Baggie king," after one of the products of his plastic-packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington...
Chile's rugged, reformist Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei is nothing if not ambitious. Not only has he promised to end Chile's spiraling inflation and redistribute the land-but he has challenged an even more sacred institution: the three-hour lunch hour, with its hallowed tradition of siesta...
Madame Perkins, as she was known helped to draft countless bills, including the social Security Act, all providing laborers with a self-respect they had not had before. Spurring the President on, she fast came to embody the New Deal's reformist spirit. Even after her departure from government, she continued to challenge complacency, supporting the civil rights movement as vigorously as her age permitted. The humility and tenacity that marked her life give dignity to the cause for which she struggled...
...relations with the Vatican, but the cardinal got assurances from the Vatican that it would not negotiate with the Polish government without his consent. He also asked Pope Paul not to name a Pole among the 27 new cardinals; both of the most likely candidates were regarded as more "reformist" than Wyszynski. Church diplomats still seek a formula for discussing church affairs with the Communists without imposing a solution against the will of the most politically astute and successful archbishop in Eastern Europe...
...They are reformist, often leftist always ardently antiCommunist. Their ideology is not based so much on the tenets of Roman Catholicism; indeed, the church in Colombia openly opposes the Christian Democrats. Rather, the party rallying cry is the Christian ethic, and it calls for social revolution without the shackles of Communism. "Christian Democracy," says Chile's Frei, "believes that the modern world is in crisis, and that only a complete readjustment of society can save man from materialism and collectivism...