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...Karamanlis wanted to be top dog, and he growled at each new move that boosted Papandreou's popularity. The new Premier froze rents, lavishly promised all Greeks a free education, declared a moratorium on farmers' debts, offered wage boosts to just about everybody. He gave up the Premier's limousine ("We can build four village schools with the money"), opened his office once a week to petitioners who swamped him with gripes, job requests, even demands to speed up their divorces. Though antiCommunist, Papandreou also managed to please leftists. He promised to free most...
Despite the variety of forms which the syndrome takes, the problems of the sophomore year at Radcliffe do share one characteristic. Dr. Erik Erikson pointed out in an interview that the Radcliffe sophomore finds the moratorium of her freshman year replaced by many pressures to commit herself. For example, Harvard demands that the Radcliffe student choose a field of concentration by her sophomore year. Also, she tends to choose her patterns of social life in her second year of college...
...because of the circumstances in which he came to office, Johnson has had things pretty much going his way. But Republicans already are complaining about the extent of his public politicking while they are waiting out the month-long political moratorium they imposed on themselves after Kennedy's assassination. While the veterans of Capitol Hill, recalling his 32 years in their midst, still think of Johnson as one of their own, they are less likely to respond to arm-twisting tactics from President Johnson than they were to those of Senate Majority Leader Johnson. Thus, the President faces certain...
Immediately after President Kennedy's assassination, top Republicans declared a month-long moratorium on partisan political activity. But under the U.S.'s tried and true system, such a moratorium fits a politician about as well as a bottle fits a bumblebee. And by last week the buzzing about 1964's G.O.P. presidential possibilities was being heard all over...
Banked Fires. The chief bond between them now is need-for Johnson plainly needs Rusk's savvy. U.S. politicians have proclaimed a month-long "moratorium" until the Johnson Administration gets oriented, and there is similar talk of a "lull" in foreign affairs. Rusk and Johnson ignore the talk, remembering that Kennedy thought he would have six months to get on his feet, but had to cope with Laos, the Bay of Pigs and Khrushchev's Berlin ultimatum before his Administration was five months...