Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bostonians went to Boston Gardens for the "eleven Votes for Peace" rally, which many Harvard students had helped plan. Onetime Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy told the crowd to work for "dove" Senatorial candidates, but McCarthy surprised some party officials by failing to say anything about Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign...
...reasoning behind Calkins' public-relations campaign was a sophisticated variation on the original report's relatively simply task. The report unearthed the problems, but Cleveland still slumbered. What Calkins had to do was make the public feel sufficiently disturbed about its crowded schools. Then they might mobilize their city's finances to hire more teachers...
Calkins was immediately cast in the role of crusading reformer challenging the entrenched party hacks. He ran an exhausting campaign, fought hard to shake a suburbanite-carpetbagger image, and finally came in third out of six candidates. That was enough to get him a four-year seat on the Board...
Since then, Calkins' record has been surprisingly consistent with the outlines he set during the PACE days. During the campaign and after the election, he emphasized the same PACE issues. Cleveland needed better schools, more money, closer cooperation with industry...
...said, was to end the war. Just getting ROTC off Harvard territory won't do that. What the protestors need to do is to win a national following -- as the civil rights marchers did in the South. National sympathy, he said, was the only way to have a successful campaign...