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Predictably, Jagan blamed it all on a "rightist plot," but union leaders as well as businessmen were behind the strike...
...political moderate, Kuchel is a prime target of the ultraright, partly because he was originally appointed to the Senate by Earl Warren, who ranks at the very top of rightist demonology, and partly because he made a stinging Senate speech last year against the John Birch Society...
...extreme rightist," Walter Tippy shouted at a late-evening political discussion. "But I am extremely right...
Current Hero. The rightist movement is most pronounced in the West, the Southwest and the South; it has a distinctly anti-Eastern flavor that reflects old and basic regional rivalries. Its organizations seem to gain most of their support from middle-and upper-income groups-doctors, dentists, merchants and industrialists, many of them leaders in their own fields and genuinely concerned about the position of the U.S. in the cold war. Some of the rightists have even taken up arms: the Minutemen (TIME, Nov. 3) regularly train with firearms in preparation for the day when the Communists may take over...
...Superpatriotism." The ultras expect little sympathy from the press, which they consider Communist-dominated: to spread their views, they publish their own huge mass of literature. The organizations often exchange mailing lists, support several large and profitable publishing houses. One of the main fonts of rightist literature is Harding College in Searcy, Ark., a small liberal arts college run by members of the Church of Christ under President George Benson, a silver-haired, bespectacled gentleman who is given to such phrases as "By Caesar!" Benson's school claims that 25 million people a year come in contact with...