Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the corridors of the Capitol to Georgetown cocktail parties. Fortas' friends and fellow Democrats found little to say in his defense. Republicans generally adopted the President's hands-off attitude. Richard Nixon, whose attacks on the Supreme Court's liberal cast figured prominently in his campaign, has been assiduously mending fences with the high court of late...
...child of the Depression who was twice a high school dropout. He eventually went to Georgia's Fort Valley State College, worked as a probation officer in. Savannah, and then moved to Chapel Hill in 1964 as a graduate student in social work. Lee's strenuous campaign centered on the contention that Chapel Hill, whose voting population is less than 10% Negro, was failing to meet the needs of its people in public transportation, recreation, city planning and housing...
...indeterminate future. Next time, they say, a surprise Israeli blitz will not succeed, because Israel is already at the limits of its natural military frontiers. If the Israelis cross the Suez, the Egyptians plan to take advantage of Israel's overextended supply lines by forcing a prolonged campaign inside Egypt?in Nasser's words, an "inch-by-inch war." It is historically such a Russian concept of defense by attrition that he just possibly did not think of it himself. Says Nasser's confidant, Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hasanein Heikal: "If the Israelis want to take Cairo, Damascus or Amman?...
...talked with some centrist politicians and, in a political statement of faith (slogan: "A New Start") worked out at his country home last weekend, he promised to give the Assembly a greater say in running the government-a centrist obsession. He also decided to switch away from a campaign strategy based on TV appearances and announced that he would spend nearly half the two-week campaign visiting every region in France...
...earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from a police bus." Whimsically, he records his dutiful trip to Washington in June "for the rich people's march in support of the Poor People's Campaign. You are supposed to come away from these affairs with a renewed commitment and a sense of purpose. I came away with two girls' addresses and a slight...