Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When John Kennedy takes his oath of office next January, he may be the 14th U.S. President* to win election without a popular vote majority. At week's end, with more than 67 million votes counted (a U.S. record), Kennedy held a 279,000 lead over Richard Nixon-and the margin was dropping steadily. Still to be counted were at least 400,000 absentee ballots in eleven states. The electoral vote (269 needed to win) stood at Kennedy 332, Nixon 191 and 14 unpledged. The scorecard according to Associated Press figures (with Kennedy electoral votes...
Where will it all end? Optimists claim that all the dieting is producing a new, slim American who will look as grand as the fashion ads. But there are mutterings that if it keeps up long enough, the Communists will overpower the U.S. without firing a shot. Americans will all get so skinny that the Reds will take over the country merely by sucking up the citizenry with vacuum cleaners...
...have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation of youth without undue suspicion, and (3) the establishment of a U.N. corps would leave the Soviets with a choice of either joining in and thus surrendering a certain propaganda initiative, or boycotting the group and thus setting itself up in competition...
...Hugh Scott Taylor, a foundation executive, found in the medieval children's crusade a spirit common with the "Peace Corps" plan. The reference was not meant mockingly, but, taken as a mark of disdain, it suggests a real danger. Membership in a "Peace Corps" calls for roughing it without complaint, for adapting to a strange cultural environment with tact and grace, for representing one's country both honestly and positively. This is work for neither a child nor a wild-eyed crusader. When abroad, these U.S. youth must, indeed, as Melady repeatedly said, "take the ball and run it across...
...democracy capable of waging a war of which an important element in the country disapproves?" are completely free of familiar cant, and remarkable in that respect at least. He speculates that two years ago de Gaulle could have acceded to the demands of the F.L.N. for compromise "without provoking a revolt by the French soldiers and citizens of Algeria," so strong was his prestige at that time. He is only vaguely optimistic about later prospects, saying in his Postscript (written in 1959) that it is possible that de Gaulle "can impose an Algerian policy of peace upon the French army...