Word: restlessness
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...clean Republican sweep of the Democratic South this autumn is as unlikely as polar bears on Peachtree Street. Nevertheless, the South is unusually restless politically. Nixon, in two trips to Dixie, has attracted more attention than Dwight Eisenhower did in the early stages of his campaigns. Poll after poll reports so many Southerners "undecided" that the Battle for the South could become the most fascinating and far-reaching of the year...
...landlord was restless about the rent; the grocer had already refused further credit; and for the Argentine couple, who had come with their young son to live in Paris, things were getting desperate. Then one day in 1958, while the parents were having one of their quarrels, the son tucked some gouaches he had been doing under his arm, slipped out to peddle them at the Left Bank cafés. The first painting he offered went for $1 - and that was the beginning of the astonishing rise of Aldo Franceschini...
...breeding down to a population of field hands," says one of the many white merchants who are beginning to wonder whether the boycott might backfire. As the more affluent and educated Negroes pull out, the county's Negro population is becoming poorer and more restless. The whites are left with a heavier tax burden to carry-and a greater fear as well. Says one Negro leader: "There wouldn't have been a bloc vote, except the white people chose to make an issue of it. Now there will be a bloc...
...Bobby Kennedy, his relentless, restless campaign manager, there was almost no time at all for relaxation. An anxious friend admonished him: "You haven't rested a single minute. Is this the way it will be? Will there be this much work all the time?" Bobby, nose peeling from the sun, looked at Nantucket Sound for a wistful moment before giving his answer: "Yes." Then he turned to his worried wife Ethel: "We can rest after November...
...China's Chou En-lai and Indonesia's President Sukarno basked in each other's compliments at the 1955 Bandung Conference, found common cause in anticolonialism. But last year, looking for a scapegoat for his crumbling economy, Sukarno cast his restless eye on the Chinese who run the stores and make the most money in nearly every village and town in Indonesia. He decided to transfer this lucrative business to deserving Indonesians, lightly overlooked the fact that few Indonesians have the know-how or energy to replace the industrious Chinese. He offered the Chinese a harsh alternative...