Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes of the world," George Romney told a Cleveland audience last week, the U.S. has become "the practical successor of 19th century white colonialism. Our motives were good, but we fell into the ancient trap of rich and powerful men and nations. We relied too heavily on the material fruits of our progress. Great as our power is, we cannot by ourselves be a police force everywhere...
...George Romney evidently thinks so. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, with only Richard Nixon a serious rival, he has embraced Javits with a degree of ardor that some party pros consider unwise so early in the game. For, though Romney and Javits may look to many Midwestern Republicans like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Romney is well aware that he enjoys nowhere near as progressive a reputation as Javits does in the populous East. "Romney's got to get that Eastern liberal-Establishment to win," one of his aides admits candidly. "Javits is the key to that...
...legislator, Javits resembles a Stakhanovite squirrel. He is a member of five committees and, at latest count, 19 subcommittees, and the chances are that he knows more about what is going on in each of them than any other member, including the chairman. Michigan's Romney refers to him as "the busiest man in the Senate," and the label fits. Much of his time goes into what he calls "our unseen work": the unheralded, rarely acknowledged chore of shepherding a bill through subcommittee, committee, and finally the full chamber...
...George Romney, LL.D., Governor of Michigan. He is one American leader who believes that vision is to be found by looking through the windshield rather than into the rearview mirror...
...giver of gospel. While Abernethy scowled at a press conference and puffed a six-inch cigar down to the stub, Evans committed the automaking heresy of knocking the styling of his company's cars. For this he blamed-however illogically-former A.M.C. Boss George Romney, who left a full four years ago to make his successful bid to become Governor of Michigan. As a result of Romney's legacy of compact economy and "boxy" styling, claimed Evans, American Motors' cars "didn't have something to excite the public...