Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Kennedy's supporters felt he was getting a raw deal, they felt less badly about it by the end of the California primary. It finally appeared that John Kennedy's slight, shy brother had carved out a winning campaign style and more important, one that was his own. Few rhetorical flourishes, high-minded slogans; more caustic straight talk and grueling face-to-face contact. Kennedy gave the nation, as his press secretary Frank Mankiewicz, said, the rare belief that he was a politician who would do what he said, that his "campaign promises" were promises...
When one so well-informed and powerful presents a program the tendency towards idle opposition slight. As one professor has put it, "I am predisposed not to kick over the traces." His remark does not mean members of the Faculty will not fight strenously when they delieve something is wrong or will effect their department adversely; it is a matter of minimizing the amount of objection-for objection's sake and of enhancing the general feeling in Faculty meetings that "The Dean wants it, why not let him have...
Election Guesses. France now faces a battle of ballots, not bullets. The opposition parties, from Communists to centrists, welcomed De Gaulle's call for parliamentary elections and immediately laid plans for campaigning. Most French political experts gave De Gaulle's party only a slight chance of regaining its slim working majority in the National Assemblv. It seemed likely, in fact, that there would be a standoff between Gaullists and leftists in the race for the National Assembly's 487 seats. In that event, there would undoubtedly ensue a period of intense maneuvering until one side won enough...
...consumer income, would swell imports and cut exports at a time when the country has already run into balance of payments difficulties. The French payments surplus, which amounted to $286 million in 1966, dwindled to nothing last year; even before the crisis, France was expecting to run a slight deficit this year...
Kennedy also found visible sustenance in California crowds. In dramatic contrast to the stand-offish manner of Oregonians on the Kennedy trail, Californians North and South greeted the slight, tanned candidate with a frenzy and gleeful emotion that served to energize his lagging effort. California's beachcomers, young black militants, migrant laborers, and keyed-up suburban housewives gave Kennedy a personal and political delight he had not felt for weeks...