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...year in which the Republican Party invaded the South and stayed there." But he also had a warning about the so-called "Southern strategy" that characterized the Goldwater campaign. In the future, he said, "our national strategy is not going to be based on a racist appeal, overt or covert, but on the economic conservatism of the Southern voter." And the G.O.P. must cultivate the Negro vote in the South. "You don't have to go down there and wave the Confederate flag," he said. "But we do have to take steps to see that Martin Luther King...
...decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...
Taped Anthems. As soon as the MIGs struck, the 4th Armored Brigade, at Camp Rashid outside Baghdad and commanded by Colonel Ahmed el Jabouri, a covert Baathist, would storm into the city, seize the radio station and the government buildings. They would be supported by 10,000 Baathist cadres from all over Iraq, who had been quietly assembling in Baghdad. Everything was complete, down to recordings of Baathist anthems to be played over Radio Iraq on the day of the coup...
...Salinger has the covert support of State Assembly Speaker Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, perhaps the ablest politician in the state. Salinger's past association with Jack Kennedy is doing him no harm. He is slowly overcoming his image as a "carpetbagger" who was born in San Francisco but had not lived in California for seven years (he was a Virginia resident when he jumped into the Senate race). Occasionally, however, when the brass bands strike up California Here 1 Come or P.S. I Love You, a comic in the crowd suggests a rendition of Carry Me Back...
...another age, it is true, these matters would never have presented themselves: at Harvard especially one would have devoted oneself to one's studies, and kept covert his social activities. Like in the 1960's the doors to sex open early and there are few people who fail to enter them, however loudly older people might cry "shame" from their platforms outside. To an extent, as Dr. Carl Binger has pointed out, this phenomenon pressures people into relationships that demand maturity, before they are fully prepared. Many couples, as well as many individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes...