Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...defeat of the bill by the Democratic-controlled House. Surprise defectors were big-city Democrats, who have for years gone along with the farm bloc on high-price supports as a matter of party loyalty. But this year urbanized Congressmen have been feeling the sting of voters who blame the wheat farm-subsidy scandal for the rising cost of living. New England Democrats went solidly against the wheat bill, with the exception of Massachusetts' John McCormack, floor leader, and Connecticut's Chester Bowles, Democratic-convention-platform committee chairman. Only four of Pennsylvania's 16 Democrats were...
...Strategy: Harassment. Sayen's strategy is to keep the airlines in turmoil until the public becomes angry and starts to blame Pete Quesada. Sayen figures that the public will side with the pilots rather than a Government agency. The trouble with this reasoning is that 1) the pilots lost much public support by their strike at Christmas against American, the nation's biggest airline (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959), and 2) Quesada is only bearing down on the pilots to eliminate carelessness, make flying safer. Sayen has also laid down this week a strike deadline against National Airlines...
Regardless of their political preferences, U.S. voters do not blame the Republicans for the summit failure. Not one of the voters he interviewed, reports United Feature's doorbell-ringing Pollster Sam Lubell this week, is shifting his vote to the Democrats. A 5 to i majority of all voters praised Ike's "dignity" in the face of the Khrushchev tirade, and three out of four were in favor of larger defense expenditures. Most people were sticking to their original, presummit choice for the presidency; Vice President Nixon, because of his experience, got a "small boost" out of increased...
Died. Tommy Touhy, 67, Capone era Chicago gangster who once boasted that his more notorious brother, Roger, "got the blame for a lot of things I did"; of cancer; in Chicago...
...this atmosphere, no one could blame the whites who chose to leave for their "holidays" in Europe, as preparations for the independence celebrations began. Many would never return. Sabena's daily flights to Brussels were booked solid for weeks ahead, and hundreds of settlers were driving out through Uganda, their belongings piled high atop their autos. The Belgians who decided to stick it out were laying in stocks of food and fuel for a speedy getaway if necessary...