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...Landon said last week, he was "a war hero who didn't know diddley-do about politics." At the moment, the G.O.P. is adrift, shorn of power and torn from its philosophical moorings. If it is to recapture power in Congress and the White House, it can do one of two things. It can permit itself to be captured by a magnetic leader who will sweep all before him, and pull a lot of Republicans in with him. Or it can develop, train and inspire thousands of candidates for all offices-local, state and national-who can honestly...
...military back to their barracks. By the time it was all over, at least 30 Sudanese had lost their lives and parliamentary rule was restored. Only one vestige remained from the old Abboud regime: the portly, dusky figure of Ibrahim Abboud, 64, who stayed on as President, though shorn of effective power...
...right-wing critique, shorn of its Goldwaterite absurdities, takes issue with none of Humphrey's compassion but very definitely with his propensity for converting compassion into instant action. Humphrey's book virtually oscillates between sighs of concern and ambitious plans for new Federal commissions, and one needn't embrace reaction to question the wisdom of this congested flow of proposals...
...nomination of Barry Goldwater than it would have been had Rockefeller or Scranton been the nominee; it is in fact, probably greater. As a Northern liberal, staunch friend of the Negro, strong supporter of labor, and articulate internationalist, it is a well-worn argument that Humphrey would have shorn up Johnson's left flank in the North-east had a moderate Republican governor been the opposition...
...president moved slowly at first, was accused of copycat management because he adopted many innovations of the government-owned Canadian National. But Crump steadily picked up momentum, has become a hard man to brake. He has entirely dieselized the road, shorn off many of its unprofitable branch lines and short-haul passenger trains, aggressively adopted piggybacking and bought the world's largest railroad-owned computer to direct freight and handle accounting. Result: in 1963's expanding economy, after a monotonous downgrade run, C.P.R.'s earnings rose 24% to $40.1 million, the highest since 1957. Canadian Pacific Airlines...