Word: spivack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside his own New York, Rockefeller's bomb drew the most cheers and fewest jeers in Michigan. "The conservatives," said Detroit's County Chairman Peter Spivack, "have been deluded into believing they can write off 10% of the nation. This is not only a wrong position; it's a silly one." Paul Bagwell, sometime G.O.P. candidate for Governor (1958 and 1960), said the party owed Rockefeller "a great debt of gratitude for speaking out." But Michigan's liking for the Rockefeller statement may have been partly traceable to hopes that a Rockefeller-Goldwater deadlock...
...American position is one of indecision, if not fearfulness," said the Omaha World-Herald. "It is one thing to proceed carefully," wrote Robert Spivack in the Herald Tribune. "It is something else to proceed 'cautiously' while the enemy is proceeding boldly." Denver's Rocky Mountain News insisted that "something has got to be done about Cuba and it had better be soon." Arthur Krock proposed naval patrols, David Lawrence called for 1) a total blockade and 2) severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. Such actions, he conceded, "could lead to some fighting." The New York Daily News...