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While the Johnsonian consensus shows signs of nationwide strain, nowhere is the return to partisan normalcy more noisily evident than in the Rockies. In the leading electoral contests in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, Republican candidates are keying their campaigns to a shared sense of resurgent conservatism. Democrats, for their part, are going somewhat less than all the way with L.B.J. The three races, all pretty much neck and neck, are made all the more uncertain by the frontier-style independence-economic as well as political-that still characterizes Rocky Mountain voting patterns...
...both throwbacks of a sort. Griese is a true triple threat who can run and kick as well as pass. Unfettered by fundamentals, Griese often throws off-balance or off the wrong foot; yet he boasts perhaps the quickest release of any passer in college football and was a consensus All-America last year. Receiver Beirne is not particularly fast, but he has the deceptive moves to break loose from defenders...
This is not a triumph for "consensus politics," but a dangerous split that restricts America's foreign policy. The Administration runs the risk of "escalated frustration." As long as the war drags on, both "hawks" and "doves" become increasingly disappointed and call for increasing drastic measures. The split between them widens, and the Administration, seeking to accommodate both sides, continues to vacillate...
Party resolutions are not binding on British governments, and Wilson is not likely to endanger relations with the U.S. by reducing Britain's defense commitments. Still, for a politician who seeks to rule by consensus, the Brighton balloting clearly showed that he had failed to achieve one in vital foreign policy and defense fields. It is now up to Wilson to either create a new consensus within his party or bend to the one that already exists...
...North into several separate regions; Easterners were threatening to secede from the nation, and arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region; Western leaders were despondent; even the tiny Mid-West-originally the only insistent voice in favor of federation-was getting cold feet. Any hopes of quick consensus were fading fast, and with the resumption of rioting, the entire fabric of nationhood was fading as well...