Word: unpopularities
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...Professor Koch-who now knows how upsetting it can be to make people think-goes a reminder that Galileo, Huxley, Darwin and Freud all expressed unpopular ideas. It is still true that no idea can be judged by a jury that never hears...
...army of hundreds of thousands who worked for him as wartime Price Administrator are still fiercely loyal to him. Liberals fondly remember that as Harry Truman's U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal (1951-53), he fought hard for a U.S. understanding of Nehru's neutrality?which was highly unpopular in the State Department and Congress. They fondly tend to forget that he has less support than Kennedy in his home state of Connecticut, was defeated when he ran for re-election as Governor in 1950, was also defeated in the primary when he tried for the U.S. Senate seat...
...demagogic device known as "the Powell Amendment" - a desegre gation rider that he tries to tack, at every, opportunity, onto school, housing or labor bills. It instantly arouses Southern oppo sition and Northern anguish, has killed at least one worthy bill and made Powell the most unpopular man in Congress. With the retirement of North Carolina's Graham Barden at the end of the present session, Powell, thanks to the sacredness of seniority, has a legitimate claim on the chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and Labor next January...
Less than five months after he scored an astonishing political comeback, Salt Lake City's peppery Mayor J. Bracken Lee was beyond doubt the most unpopular man in town last week. University of Utah students hanged him in effigy, crowds booed and hissed him at city commission meetings, both Salt Lake City newspapers rapped him, and irate citizens set up in front of his house a burning cross inscribed, LEE, YOU ARE A FOOL. Reason for the outbursts: Lee had highhandedly fired respected Police Chief...
...election. The race for the presidency will be a fourth-term walkover for venerable President Syngman Rhee, 84. Death last month for the second time removed his only opponent (TIME, Feb. 29). For Vice President, Rhee and his Liberal Party nominated Lee Ki Poong, 63, an ailing automaton so unpopular that he has not campaigned at all. Four years ago Lee Ki Poong lost by more than 200,000 votes to the Democratic candidate, Roman Catholic John Chang...