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...away from the polling booths. "We can't be sure the polls are picking up all his strength," remarks one adviser. The opposite, of course, could also be true; many people who now say they are for Wallace might, when faced with the thought of "President Wallace," revert to their original party loyalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Avoiding the Dewey Syndrome | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...brutality incident last year, but all have been reinstated under the administration of Mayor Loeb. Such wrist-spanking discipline deepens Negro frustration. So does the chest-thumping of Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman, who recently promised an applauding white civic club that if Memphis' Negroes revert to "lawlessness," as he put it, "we'll knock them on their ass." There was further frustration when a bid by Negroes to prevent a sales-tax rise-partly to finance a 50-man increase in the police force-was defeated. The tax hike passed 3 to 2, which is roughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: On the Brink in Memphis | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Writers need myths to revert to-simple unrelenting tales to retell. Americans use the old West. The Irish use their centuries of uprising against the English. In just the same way, Australians use those savage prison settlements that first seeded the new land with transported convicts in the late 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Transported | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...conversation during Dubček's visit to Moscow was an unusual Soviet offer of $300 million or more worth of credit in hard currency. Dubček will no doubt gladly take the money, but he is also eager to make sure that the Russians do not revert from the carrot to the stick and cut off the oil and raw-material shipments upon which his country depends. As a hedge against any loss of Soviet oil, for example, he is reportedly negotiating with Iran for millions of tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Besieged Reformer | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...carry through such reforms, the country's new Premier, Oldřich Černík, 46, organized a new Cabinet of forward-looking moderates who are unlikely to revert to the old ways. Among the members are such men as Interior Minister Josef Pavel, 59, and Defense Minister Martin Dzur, 48. Both of these new ministers were purged in the past and served stiff prison terms. The new Minister of Culture and Information, urbane, polished former Editor Miroslav Galuška, 45, is a favorite of the country's liberal writers, who were the catalysts of reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Playing Out of Tune | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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