Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the party's Southern conservative wing emerged Lester Maddox, who waited until last week to join the field. In his nationally televised announcement, the former fried-chicken entrepreneur paraphrased the George Wallace platform, extolling private enterprise and attacking crime, big government, racial violence and the Supreme Court. The Georgian will likely cost Humphrey no more than a scattering of votes in the South. Since Maddox regards the three other Democratic candidates as socialists or worse, some Southerners speculated that he was running so that, when rejected, he would have an argument for bolting the party and supporting Wallace...
...Hughes withdrew his favorite-son candidacy and seemed on the brink of endorsing McCarthy. California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, whose delegation owns 174 votes, appeared likely to back him. Unruh hopes to run for Governor in 1970 and needs to win friends in the California party's liberal wing. McCarthy was also encouraged because virtually none of the delegates previously pledged to Robert Kennedy moved to back McGovern, who pinned his hopes on rallying the R.F.K. dissidents...
...politics, civil servants are plagued by tribal kinsmen who expect to be put on the dole if not put up in the city man's home. Ministers and senior civil servants can usually afford a separate wing for the "tribal family." Youthful civil servants cannot, and hence often ask to be sent to work in a village as far from their own as possible. To help relieve the burden, Niger's President Hamani Diori has declared war against "family parasitism...
Last spring, when a left-wing Paris daily said she hated life in the U.S. and longed to return to Russia, Svetlana Alliluyeva felt compelled to reply. Writing from Princeton, N.J., to a friend in Paris, Joseph Stalin's daughter stated she would "never return to Russia." In fact, "last summer, when Moscow began to sling mud at me, I threw my Soviet passport in the fire." Far from disliking the U.S., continued Svetlana, she finds increasing joy in the kindness of Americans and wishes the 16-year-old daughter she left in Russia could meet America...
Vidal: Mr. Buckley, with his enormous and thrilling charm, manages to get away from the issues. You certainly must maintain yourself, Bill, to be the Marie Antoinette of the right wing...