Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Rockefeller himself headed for his wife's family home in a Main Line Philadelphia suburb, grinningly refusing to expand on his "command decision." Why had he done it? One possible reason was that the latest batch of polls from New Hampshire showed him running a dismal 15% to Nixon's 75%, with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey...
Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...
...camps in the Arab lands encircling Israel. They are, hostages to Arab governments' bitter reluctance to admit the existence of Israel or to prejudice the refugees' claim to what was once their homeland by the slightest gesture toward resettlement. And they are hostages also to the hard line of the Israeli government, which ingathers hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world but has no space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle 100,000 Arabs, but has since withdrawn the offer). The Palestinian Arabs...
...Resettled. In Akbet Jaber's modern, whitewashed UNRWA food dispensary, refugees with ration cards line up once a month for issues of flour, sugar and rice equal to 1,600 calories daily. So desirable are the ration cards that a brisk black-market trade has their current market value at $430 apiece. Because of this, no one ever dies in Akbet Jaber or in any Arab refugee camp, or at least deaths are not reported, and the deceased's card is not surrendered. As a result, an estimated 300,000 card carriers are not refugees...