Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...highly partisan Democratic State Central Committee breakfast in Cheyenne, Johnson rejected the support of party extremists, either of the Southern Bourbon right, or the Eastern A.D.A. left: "I would not want the support of extremists, and I would not be comfortable with it." Flying on to Salt Lake City, he addressed a $100-a-plate luncheon of 38 local businessmen (half of them Republicans). "If political victory requires that the Negro always be reminded that he is a Negro, the Catholic that he is a Catholic, the Jew that he is a Jew, the Mormon that he is a Mormon...
Thorns in the Ivy. At midweek, in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson at the ivy-colonnaded University of Virginia's decidedly nonpartisan Founder's Day, Stevenson launched a thoroughly partisan attack on the President. (Such is his prestige in academic circles that he is probably the only politician who would try and not be condemned for such daring.) In his text, sent ahead by special delivery to Washington correspondents, Stevenson also made three barbed references to his prime personal and political foe, Richard Nixon. But at the last moment he edited out Nixon's name, referred...
Last October, after Peking granted a temporary visa to Frederick C. Nossal of the Toronto Globe and Mail (circ. 226,000), Nossal joined a corps of foreign correspondents distinguished mainly for partisan reporting. Indeed, of Peking's 25-man complement of visiting newsmen, only two others-both wire-service men, one from Agence France-Presse and one from Reuters, Ltd.-are of the non-Communist press. After reading thousands of words of Nossal's copy, his hosts expressed themselves as more than satisfied with the new visitor. Conferring on him the distinction of being the Western Hemisphere...
...Kennedy is still no partisan of the overoptimistic, positive-thinking branch of Protestantism, which he describes as "a spiritual aspirin tablet, a spiritual glass of Ovaltine." He adds: "Any church that starts out to be a success in the world's eyes is doomed to failure...
...Critics: "I am trying to keep my statements outside the partisan field. I think we should be big enough not to seek headlines. I think we should be big enough to put our heads together and see if we can get a real solution...