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Died. Charles A. Buckley, 76, one of the last oldtime big-city bosses, Bronx County, N.Y., Democratic leader for 13 years and 15-term U.S. Congressman who was one of the first to jump aboard the Kennedy bandwagon when he pressured New York delegates into supporting J.F.K.'s nomination for President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung...
Political gyrations turned the last two sessions of the conference into what one professor described as "intellectual anarchy." In their effort to stall the voluntary army bandwagon, Sol Tax, chairman of the conference's planning committee and professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and several colleagues at that university proposed that no resolutions be passed on anything...
Getty Square in Yonkers is in fact a large alley. A thousand people could probably squeeze into it, but the place gets claustrophobic with half that many and it was claustrophic when the O'Connor bandwagon arrived. Around 3:45 p.m., many of those attracted by the sound equipment were school children, some from junior high school, some from elementary school. Perhaps a quarter of the 500 listeners were Negro, and it seemed that half of them were waving small American flags distributed by the Democratic Party...
When Rolvaag offered Short the lieutenant governor slot on his "independent" ticket, the bandwagon was rolling. Rolvaag soon had the influential support of Twin Cities labor unions. The "Short for Lieutenant-Governor" and "Rolvaag-Short" campaigns were models of logistic efficiency. Billboards, bumper stcikers, newspaper ads, television and radio spots saturated the state...
Promise of Peace. He has performed almost as if he were riding a bandwagon instead of a tank. Since July, when the election "campaign" officially began, Costa e Silva has barnstormed virtually all of Brazil's 22 states, made scores of speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...