Word: westerns
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...Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and California. Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Mayor Ivan Allen of Atlanta and former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina stand for the moderate South. Other prominent names: Economist Robert Nathan, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action; Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago and North Western Railway Co.; Richard Maguire, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Kennedy Administration...
...Last Ounce. The Vice President seemed to be collecting all those who were remaining loyal to Lyndon, and then some. Humphrey backers claimed to be rolling up commitments of support in several Western states. Enough big campaign contributors are available to spare him the financial hang-ups he suffered during his 1960 bid for the nomination. County conventions in Minnesota, hitherto believed safe territory for McCarthy, chose enough Humphrey-leaning representatives to the June state convention to assure the Vice President of a large majority of the state's 52 delegate votes in August. The executive board...
...temples to dramatize their cause. The Boston Tea Party had the same purpose. The 13th century King John's Magna Carta illustrated the oldest inducement for social reform: fear of "revolution or worse." To his credit, Marx argued against violence until societies were really ripe for change; most Western European labor terrorism disappeared as a result. But in romantic countries, including the U.S., revolutionary violence often became a mystique for purging feelings of inferiority. Explains Brandeis University Sociologist Lewis Coser: "The act of violence commits a man symbolically to the revolutionary movement and breaks his ties with his previous...
...paradigm. Individualists claw their way through the unrelieved shootings, stabbings, rapes and lynchings of American fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed, U.S. history roils with political violence, much of it self-defense...
...Program also provides for professors from the four Atlanta colleges to teach at the 19 mainly Northern and Western institutions which have joined the project. But the sponsors say that exchanges will not always be possible, and the focus of the program is on bringing scholars to Atlanta...