Word: texan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lead. With the campaign in its closing weeks, the man to catch is still Governor Price Daniel, 51, an unimposing figure in a country judge's black suit and a crushed Stetson, who wants to become the first Texan to win four two-year terms in Austin. A former U.S. Senator, Baptist Daniel is a just-plain-folks politician who occasionally startles visitors to his office by dropping to his knees in prayer; he won by more than 1,000,000 votes in 1960 although he had bolted the party in 1952 to back Dwight Eisenhower...
Barbecue & Ballyhoo. Yet despite all the huing and crying, neither the candidates nor the campaign seem to have caught fire. Says a Texan in Amarillo: "The whole thing doesn't seem to amount to much this year. I'm not really terribly interested." In Sweetwater. only 25 persons attended a rally for Governor Daniel, although the affair had been ballyhooed for weeks. Connally did get 10,000 to show up at a mammoth barbecue he threw in Floresville, the home of his parents, but more often he found himself talking to empty seats. The politicians blame the obvious...
Calls to Ministry. Mackay's work has been handsomely carried on by President McCord. 42, a jowly Texan who manages to be both a respected theologian and a top-drawer administrator. He himself teaches two courses-and is famed among students for his gestures: "the punt" (cupped hands suggesting firmness) and "peeling the cabbage" (when he appears to chop ideas from his head). He has strengthened an already good faculty by adding such scholars as Old Testament Expert James Barr of the University of Edinburgh and Pastoral Psychologist Seward Hiltner of the University of Chicago, brought in language machines...
When intercity buses last year matched the railroads in total passenger miles for the first time in U.S. history, no one was less surprised than a burly, blue-eyed Texan named Maurice Edwin Moore. As president of Transcontinental Bus System, Inc., Moore, 51, has built one of the nation's fastest-growing businesses on the proposition that as far as mass transportation by land is concerned, the bus is the wave of the future...
Bruce and Texan John Tower peroratedsternly, "Give me liberty or give me death!" But the live hero of the night was Barry Goldwater,† who got a five-minute standing ovation complete with waving banners (FOR THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM-GOLDWATER IN '64) and two rousing choruses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Cried Goldwater: "Conservatism is the wave of the future. It has come of age at a time of need. It has come to life after 30 years of apathy...