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...Stevenson's qualifications for the Presidency. He made a fatal mistake in ignoring the power brokers and convention delegates in favor of the people, but his impressive victories in Tennessee were evidence enough of political vitality, Gorman's account of his career is well researched but not well written; bland in style and only minimally concerned with the depth of Kefauver's personality. Albert Gore will have time to read this book (in Tennessee, not Washington) but not many others will make the effort...
...This appeal, in a new song by left-hearted Folk Singer Joan Baez, seems to have been answered by her friend Bob Dylan. The Minnesota-born troubadour, who in recent years abandoned his ballads of protest (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, killed three months ago in an escape attempt at San Quentin prison. Excerpt: "The prison guards they cursed him,/ As they watched him from...
While the bishops upheld Paul's conservatism on church matters, on their other big issue, social justice, they were struggling to catch up with the liberal stand he took in an encyclical as long ago as 1967. Their final document, "Justice in the World," consisted largely of bland generalities on such topics as economics and ecology, and was sent to the Pope without public release. It protested "injustices deprived of a voice," but stopped short of citing specific situations such as those in Brazil and South Africa. On the population problem, the statement suggested that abortion and the "unjust...
...Supreme Court's unwillingness to review the case left ample room for other federal judges to follow Keith's lead. >Southern desegregation was also aided by the court. The state of Virginia had wanted to expand the two-year program of its predominantly white Richard Bland College to four years. But the community of Petersburg, where Bland is located, already has a four-year school, Virginia State College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts...
Despite his bland political image, McGovern is far from lackluster in the programs he has proposed and the issues he has supported. His campaign theme translates his idealistic, humanitarian philosophies into specific, bold, but often contradictory, programs. His speeches urge a reconciliation of foreign and domestic politics, a return of our leaders to the ideals for which the country is supposed to stand, and a massive revision of the national tax structure to distribute wealth more evenly. Although he attempts to present political programs which are at the same time idealistic and practical, his political stands contain an inconsistency which...