Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have caused some able mayors to give up: they have announced that they would retire voluntarily as their terms expire this year. Yet in this fall's mayoralty elections, there is no shortage of bold - some would say foolhardy - politicians eager to succeed them, while elsewhere embattled incumbents campaign desperately to retain their posts...
...hinting that he will oppose right-to-work laws if they will yield slightly to black demands. A former state secretary of labor and industry, the moderate Tabor promises to switch millions of dollars from patronage jobs to strengthen the police department. "If that is a law-and-order campaign," says Tabor...
...BROWN is the peace movement's foot in the establishment's door. He is the hip version of the man in the IBM ads. He is the hip version of the man in the IBM ads. He is a Harvard Divinity student turned McCarthy campaign student coordinator turned Vietnam Moratorium chairman. People say he is a really nice guy. So why does he always seem to lose...
Moratorium leaders, and especially Brown, have never been much interested in the politics of the street. With remembrances of the McCarthy campaign churning in his head. Brown must go to bed every night with visions of reviving the anti-war movement as peace-candidate campaign helpers in the 1970 elections. Brown can see the Congressional seat in Cambridge or his home town or Council Bluffs, Iowa, looming up for himself next fall, but to keep his political hopes alive, he must keep hold of Middle Americans, who cringe at the thought of 500,000 people massing in Washington...
Because his Youth Participation Party did not make the ballot, George C. Whipple III is using his summer earnings to finance a write-in campaign. Hoping to prove that "not all the youth of America are out rioting." he has distributed red-and-white "Win with Whipple" buttons, nailed up posters, and handed out literature. He has also given speeches whenever possible...