Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which populated the arroyos with schizophrenic half-breeds, paranoid bluecoats, amnesic prospectors. Then there was the Civil Rights Western, and all the persecuted Piutes, molested Mexicans, downtrodden Jewish drummers and tormented Chinese laundrymen had their day. Scriptwriters are now riding farther from the train, rustling plots (from De Maupassant, Stevenson, even Aristophanes), introducing foreigners (an Italian tailor on Zane Grey Theater, a samurai on Wagon Train) and dabbling in rape, incest, miscegenation, cannibalism...
...United Nations Council, "Harvard's International Relations Club," has around 150 members, of whom at least 20 are "hard core." Based on an "interest in foreign affairs and a belief that the UN is a good organization," the Council is nonpartisan. In '56, both Stevenson pins and Ike buttons appeared in exec board meetings, and president Eldon Eisenach '60 said that "impartiality is the secret of our success...
...strategy of the Humphrey team was to persuade Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson to run in the primary as a favorite son. Thus, come convention time, he would be in a position to deliver the Wisconsin delegation to his favorite, Adlai Stevenson, or-if Stevenson means what he says about not running-Hubert Humphrey. Key Humphrey players, who worked out smoothly at the Midwest Democratic rally in Milwaukee last fortnight: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, United Auto Workers' Political Operative Harvey Kitzman ("The union's support is going to Humphrey"), and Washington Lawyer James Rowe, great...
Just as they were about to score, State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, Stevenson-pledged but Kennedy-prone, a protégé of Wisconsin's Johnson-baiting Senator William Proxmire, called a quick meeting of about a dozen of the 27 members of the party's administrative committee, got them to vote for an innocent statement in favor of allowing Wisconsin voters "to participate as fully as possible" in the Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey...
...Latest count last week from the oddsmaking California poll: in California Kennedy leads Nixon (49% to 39%, with 12% undecided) by a wider margin than Adlai Stevenson (48% to 43%, with 9% undecided...