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Moderate Noises. A former state legislator and highway commissioner, Ward, 58, has suffered from a stodgy, standoffish campaign style. Realizing how close the race has become, he last week recalled Nunn's appeals to the backlash vote in the Republican primary and charged: "He's doing it again. He's running a disgraceful campaign. He would make a disgraceful Governor...
Until the new curriculum is put into effect and new textbooks written and printed, Red Chinese education is bound to be chaotic. Already Mao's revolution is producing its own backlash among the youth-a new hippie-type, dropout group that Shanghai newspapers are castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education...
Wallace ticket could siphon off many Yorty votes and even come out ahead. Wallace pulled between 29.8% and 42.8% in three 1964 presidential primaries largely because of racial backlash; in a Referendum the same year, California voters went against open housing, 2 to 1. A Wallace plurality would not endanger Johnson's renomination, of course, but it would be a serious blow to his prestige in a year that promises to be tough enough for the Democrats nationally...
...cool campaign, carrying his appeal to white as well as Negro neighborhoods, promising equal treatment to both. Though a fraction (4.5%) of the city's white voters did cast their ballots for him (as well as 10% of the Negroes), Hatcher indirectly owed his victory to the white-backlash that gave George Wallace the overwhelming support of Gary's white voters in the 1964 presidential primary. Openly appealing to anti-Negro voters, a third candidate, Bernard Konrady, siphoned off more than 13,000 votes that would most likely have gone to Katz-five times as many...
...nominate any man who is overidentified with some militant cause. As a muckraking social reformer, "Peoples Lawyer" Brandeis so irked Senate conservatives (and anti-Semites) that his confirmation took more than four months, the longest delay in Supreme Court history. Even now, a Negro nominee might rouse a similar backlash, with consequent resentment by Negro voters. When Thurgood Marshall, now Solicitor General, was named a federal appeals judge in 1961, Southern Senators blocked his confirmation for almost a full year...