Word: campaigns
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Granted, Atkins was an incumbent, and what is less well known is that he frequently votes law-and-order. But his conservatism was not made an issue in his campaign, and he had, in fact, deliberately played up his sympathy with Roxbury in order to maximize his drawing power in the black community. Since the blacks account for only 15 per cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected...
Agnew personally is a talkative, gregarious and kindly man, but he keeps slipping unwittingly into crudity. As when he branded the Baltimore Sun's Gene Oishi "the fat Jap" during the campaign. Or when he told a Chicago press conference: "When I am moving in a crowd, I don't look and say, 'There's a Negro, there's a Greek, there's a Polack.' " Or when his aide, C. D. Ward, barreled through a glass door at San Clemente and ended up with permanent facial scars; for fun, Agnew started calling him "Wolfgang...
Lindsay was able to outspend and outorganize his opponents. In television debates, he easily outclassed Procaccino, the early favorite in the campaign. The mayor was able to attract the active support of liberal elements of both major parties. In the end, many Jews found that, despite their earlier hostility to Lindsay, they could not vote for either the academically conservative Marchi or the bellicose, volatile Procaccino...
...country. A former prison camp inmate whose evocative historical novels have dealt bluntly with the repressions of the Stalin era, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is excluded from official Moscow literary circles. He lives on the outskirts of the ancient city of Ryazan under the shadow of a Soviet campaign to discredit him. Though his major works (The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) are widely read abroad, they have never been published in Russia. Nor have any of his short stories appeared in the Soviet Union during the past three years. Last week the Soviets moved to impose on him the sentence...
Lonely Dissenter. Solzhenitsyn's dismissal was an inevitable conclusion to his long, often lonely, campaign for intellectual freedom in the Soviet Union. Since the Russian publication in 1962 of his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, he has been marked as a dissenter. While a handful of other Russian writers fled to the West, he remained determined to stay and work for the cause of literary freedom in the Soviet Union. In 1967 he angered the apparatchiki with his famous letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers, in which he condemned "the no longer...