Word: abt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, used a slick advertising campaign, a late endorsement from O'Neill and a strong get-out-the-vote operation to win 52.4% of the ballots. The closest of his rivals, State Senator George Bachrach, got 30.2%. Kennedy now faces Republican Businessman Clark Abt, who is given almost no chance. When family members gathered for a victory party, Senator Edward Kennedy, Joe's uncle, quipped, "I'm delighted Joe decided to run for the Eighth and not against...
...nearly single-party system of Democratic dominance in the historically influential Eighth Congressional District made the primary victory a virtual guarantee of an election win November 4, although Clark Abt, the Cambridge businessman who won the simultaneous Republican contest, receives considerable support from conservative interests...
Other candidates in the race include Kennedy, State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown), State Representatives Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), King, James Spiegal of Watertown, Republicans Clark Abt and Mildred Jefferson, and Cambridge activist Carla Johnston, a Democrat...
...general election Abt will have to beat out GOP candidates Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson and Markham Lyons...
Directly preceeding Abt's speech, the Republican Club chose Iowa Republican Congressional candidate Fred L. Grandy '70, formerly "Gopher" on "Love Boat," as their man of the year...