Word: yorkerism
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...Rockefeller. "Nelson Rockefeller," he said again and again, "is the man best qualified to be President." In response to "the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing," he sponsored a draft-Rockefeller organization, flying around the country in a Rockefeller-chartered plane to sing the New Yorker's praises. He was still singing when Rocky pulled out of the race on March...
Rocky's camp countered with a commissioned sampling by another veteran pollster, Archibald Crossley, who had surveyed the nation's nine major industrial states and found that the New Yorker could easily coast past both the Democrats, while Nixon would tie with McCarthy and defeat Humphrey by only three points...
...black man dropped the subject and the tall New Yorker began to hate the cops out loud again...
...hard-core group was standing on the Common proper, goading others to join them, but most of the others remained in the relative safety of the pavement circling the Common. The police cars made their move. It was total confusion. Kids who had been listening to the tall New Yorker with sideburns now didn't know which way to go. Were they supposed to run, or stay? Some people scattered. Some began to battle the police. It was impossible to tell whether this was a public protest, or a battle out of the American revolution. Kicking kids were dragged...
...confused police tried to deal with the kids who were scattering and regrouping but never leaving the Common, I remembered something else the tall New Yorker had said; "We haven't really enough people here tonight to make mobile tactics offensively effective. But there will be other nights." And then as I saw that kid getting his arms and legs twisted as the cops dumped him in the wagon, it occurred to me that talk of police brutality in a situation like this was almost meaningless. This was no protest; this was a miniature war. Most of the kids...