Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings, a corner of the Adams-for-Senate office in Boston debated whether or not their candidate should spearhead a sit-in at the Federal Building to protest the new escalation.
The last peace candidacy in Massachusetts, that of H. Stuart Hughes for the Senate in 1962, was assuredly not a traditional one. But for all the attention it received, Hughes polled only three per cent of the vote. Adams must lift the Hughes tally to at least ten per cent...
At the same time Adams has tactical advantages over Hughes. There was no war in 1962; consequently it was harder to convince voters of the importance of the peace issue. Hughes, moreover, had no base from which to build his campaign. Adams has an outfit called Mass Pax, or Political...
Approached last fall to seek the nomination, Thomas Boylston Adams--a member of the "royal line" that descends from John and John Quincy--agreed to run if $100,000 could be raised. George Somarippa, who had managed the Hughes campaign, set out to meet Adams' requirement, and in February it...
This realization came simultaneously with a general disenchantment among Adams supporters. Area coordinators complained about the publicity, Adams complained about the signature tally, and the Students for a Democratic Society contingent in the main office complained about the moderation of the candidate.