Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really have little cause to protest in the streets. But more to the political point is that the whites, the mature, the securely employed and the affluent combine to form a voting majority. This massive bloc belongs permanently to neither party. It follows no one ideology. Nixon seeks to attract enough of it to form an electoral majority. To do it, he must capture the imaginations of many Democrats and independents who are largely reconciled to the Big Government he likes to berate and have been cool toward Nixon in the past. At the same time, he must reckon with...
...similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means only in the South. This formula might lose Northeastern states?but it might also attract significant numbers of disgruntled voters in the North. This plan is reinforced by the echoes of riots past and prospective. A bloody battle was raging in a Negro area just across Biscayne Bay from Convention Hall. Each ghetto upheaval will make things tougher for the Democrats this year...
...missionary-educated Rubia was once a clerk in a local stock brokerage, later became a dry-goods retailer before serving from 1962 to 1967 as Nairobi's first African mayor. Rubia's development company recently doubled its capitalization to $9,000,000. "Industry does not generally attract outside investors," he says, "unless there is active participation in industry within the country itself...
...clear how many demonstrators of various stripe will appear in Chicago during convention week. The National Mobilization Committee estimates it will attract 100,000. Allard Lowenstein said he expects the Coalition for an Open Convention to attract 150,000. Many small coordinating centers are being set up in Chicago, but most are along ideological rather than geographical lines...
...would actually be welcome are thought to be more desireable. Nevertheless, the continuance of a festival at all is, in many ways, becoming contingent upon groups and personalities playing rock blues who can draw enough people to make it financially solvent. And these very groups and the people they attract are subversive of the festival as a folk festival, and naturally...