Word: wanted
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Nice Blend. At week's end, Johnson could rate his Northern foray a success. Massachusetts, of course, is Jack Kennedy's for as long as Kennedy wants it. Key-state Pennsylvania (more than 70 votes) is for whomever Dave Lawrence and Philadelphia Boss William Green want, and they are for the time being glad-handing everybody. But if Democrats eventually called for a compromise candidate, Lyndon had proved two points: 1) he was available, and 2) in the dark and true and tender North the middle-roading Texas swallow blended with the foliage very nicely...
...Explaining their attitude, Southerners expressed fears of a Catholic spoils system, with "Catholics getting all the jobs." Other reasons were vague ("I just don't understand Catholics") or fantastic ("I wouldn't want the Pope running the country...
Behind the crisis was an impending $120 million deficit and a controversy over the proper new tax to erase it (TIME, May 4). Governor Williams wants to tap a $50 million veterans' fund for immediate cash, replenish the till and wipe out the deficit with corporate and personal income taxes. Old Guard Republicans, who control the state senate, are agreeable to using the trust fund. But they want to increase Michigan's 3% sales tax to 4% and avoid an income tax, refuse to release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered...
...caricatures of people ranging from Napoleon to Senator Kennedy or Fidel Castro. Most of the characters in his own cartoons, according to Feiffer, are not people he has really seen, but rather stereotypes "filtered through our general mass culture." "In order to point out the things you want to point out," he explained, you have to take an image and "distort it slightly" by running it through "a cockeyed mirror...
...hours of fine acting, social criticism interwoven with pathos and sentimental memories of adolescence, Rebel Without a Cause is a movie to be seen by everyone. And, even without the mystical appeal of James Dean, there should be those who, out of sheer curiosity will want to see the movie whose title it is the cross of our generation to bear...