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...parties are not drifting toward the center but that the bulk of the American people are conservative in the Goldwater sense--a very special sense, as I shall indicate below. Chester Bowles' The Coming Political Breakthrough, on the other hand, refers in its title to a new national political consensus on extremely liberal lines, which Bowles believes is about to take shape in the 1960 Presidential campaign. Neither Goldwater nor Bowles, I think, is correct in his evaluation of the current American political temperament...
...recall that he was decisive in shaping the United Nations into something more than an arena for propaganda cock fights at a time when something more was desperately needed. They will say that he strengthened the only positive deterrent to war in a world where the peace was a consensus of terror...
Double Appeal. Cabot Lodge's U.N.-born political popularity attests to a pretty clear U.S. consensus on the nation's role in the modern world. Down to the eve of World War II, the traditional U.S. wish in foreign relations was to have, as George Washington counseled in his Farewell Address, "as little political connection as possible" with foreign nations. That outlook came to be called "isolationism," though what Washington advised, and what most Americans wanted, was not isolation but avoidance of permanent entanglements that might drag the U.S. into alien quarrels or impair its sovereignty. Cabot Lodge...
...voting age v. 52.7 million eligible men). Next Nov. 8 will very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus: Kennedy has the edge for male honors, Pat Nixon for the distaff); both are keenly aware of female interest in heavyweight issues (Kennedy, economic security; Nixon stressing peace) ; both have staffed party organizations with more women officials and workers than ever before...
...telecasters who enjoy current prominence-were being subjected to a two-way squeeze: tightening government regulation and the tensing of public opinion, which objects to the trend toward young TV and radio performers as both an esthetic annoyance and a violation of Mexico's child labor law. The consensus is that the piping of all the lisping little pitch people will soon be dialed out, and that Janette Arceo will retire to her farm for a while. A recently passed law requires all radio and television announcers in Mexico to hold a high school diploma...