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...Pope has not appointed a new Secretary of State, has since remarked: "The man would have to be my shadow, and I haven't found one"). Montini, in charge of day-to-day operations, is thin, suave, cool, precise, and politically a middle-of-the-roader. Tardini, in charge of long-range planning, is thickset, jovial, sharp-tongued, and further left...
...went to Morris High School. He went on to Columbia University's Teachers College, the academic nest in which John Dewey hatched his theories of progressive education (theories which the New York school system began adopting after World War I and from which Middle-of-the-Roader Jansen still cautiously borrows today). He went back to the public schools as a teacher, married a fellow teacher - a vivacious physical education instructor named Frances Allan - and in 45 years of ambitious and dedicated endeavor has risen to the top of the system's intricate hierarchy...
...middle-of-the-roader in domestic affairs, Ruiz Cortines is expected to carry forward Alemán's big program of strenuous industrial expansion, but with more decorum, stability, efficiency-and less tolerance of corruption. He is a frequent, admiring visitor to the U.S. "I love to stroll in the streets of New York," he says, "lost among 8,000,000 people. There, one is just an atom." He intends to continue Mexico's policy of close friendship with the big neighbor to the north...
Republican Direction. Before the American Bar Association in St. Louis in 1949, Ike tagged himself as a middle-of-the-roader, but his road seemed to be going in a Republican direction. Said he: "We will not accord to the central government unlimited authority, any more than we will bow our necks to the dictates of the uninhibited seekers after personal power in finance, labor, or any other field...
Ruiz Cortínez' friends say that as President he will run his own show and will clean out the fat-contract men who surround the present administration. A middle-of-the-roader in domestic politics, he promises to continue Alemán's foreign policy of close friendship with the U.S. In the PRI tradition, he will not accept victory without putting up a show for it. Between now and July, he will tour the country in what he says will be a "gentlemanly and principally patriotic" campaign...