Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Voltaire's ringing "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is incomprehensible. The sense of individual responsibility that the Western ego has developed over the centuries is missing, and what seems in the West a rather commonplace step-voting and the individual decision that precedes it-can seem in Africa and Asia a lonely and unnatural...
Last week's decree was another step in Franco's march away from isolation and tyranny. With the passions of the Civil War now all but dead, with a booming economy and a growing middle class, and with the political currents of the Western world whistling through Spain's wide-open doors, the pace of the march has been quickening...
...peppery native of Tabasco who proved the most effective governor (1959-64) in his state's history, Madrazo declares: "The party cannot be the government. It should point out objectives - and demand that the government carry out those objectives." As a first step, Madrazo promises, candidates for every elective office in Mexico will be chosen "out in the daylight." He plans to replace old party hacks with bright young leaders, recently blocked an attempt by conservative P.R.I. office holders to scrap a constitutional provision restricting Congressmen to a single term. To infuse a "new mystique and a new militancy...
...rather barren grounds that a second party must be kept in the running. Patent political grows out of grave weaknesses in the character of the Republican Party, weaknesses which resulted in the Goldwater nomination. Rovere with his careful analysis of Goldwater and Goldwaterism, and Novak with his step-by-step account of the Goldwater victory in San Francisco, expose these weaknesses and help show what a faltering and confused animal the Republican elephant has become
...Harvard improvers of the breed planning to attend today's opening at Suffolk Downs are advised that BOURBON BLUE looks like a promising longshot in today's featured eighth race. He's a seven-year-old cheaple, but has the speed to lead every step of the way. CHIEF MASHPEE could pay a long price in the sixth, and MACEDONIA would have to break a leg to lose in the ninth...