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Real liberals of the McCarthy stripe are few and far between in this poverty-stricken state, but the moderate reformers like Sec. of State party nominee John D. Rockefeller IV are relatively liberal. James Sprouce, a reformer won the party nomination after a long fight against one of the state's many close to corrupt party officials. If he wins, the reformers will have control of the all important patronage to build themselves up for 1970. A possible challenge for progressives in '70 is conservative Sen. Byrd. Men to watch are Sprouce and Rockefeller...
...statement of the Czech historian, Frantisek Palacky that "The Hussite War is the first war in history that was fought not for material interests but for intellectual ones - for ideals" is mistaken - by 16 centuries. In the second century B.C., the Syrian king, Antiochus IV, sought to hellenize forcibly the Jews of Palestine and to compel them to surrender their way of life. In the year 168 B.C., the Maccabees launched a revolt against their Syrian overlords, the purpose of which was the preservation of and the right to practice one's faith. Had the Maccabees not fought this...
...member of Nader's task force supported himself in part by serving as part-time superintendent of an apartment building. Two others wangled rent-free rooms as caretakers. William Howard Taft IV, a great-grandson of President Taft, who is in his second year at Harvard Law School, lived on his savings. Edward Cox, 21, took a few days off to visit a girl friend while her father was winning the Republican nomination for President. Cox had met Tricia Nixon, now 22, in Manhattan at a Chapin School dance, and they have been going out together "more or less...
...Hoover who promised "a chicken in every pot," for example. The phrase was used in a 1928 G.O.P. campaign flyer, and was perpetuated as a Hooverism after Al Smith seized upon it for an ironic, scoffing attack. In any event, the term originated with France's King Henry IV (1553-1610), a champion phrasemaker of his day. He observed: "I wish there would not be a peasant so poor in all my realm who would not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." Henry was also the three-centuries-removed ghostwriter for James G. Elaine's "plumed...