Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's April Fools' Day balloting also produced two winners with familiar names. Barry Goldwater Jr., 30, who may be more conservative than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
Wisconsin's Seventh District, a picturesque region of forests, lakes and dairy farms, has long been an unassailable Republican stronghold. Before last week, the Seventh had not sent a single Democrat to Congress in this century, and it elected Melvin Laird to nine consecutive terms on Capitol Hill before he moved to the Pentagon. Thus, as the G.O.P. nominee in a special election held last week to choose Laird's successor, State Senator Walter J. Chilsen felt pretty good about his chances. Chilsen, 45, a former television newscaster from Wausau, felt so good, in fact, that he rather...
...little red books of Mao Tse-tung's quotations and chanting "Long life to Chairman Mao!" Many carried sunflowers as symbols of loyalty to a man whom his followers revere as "the red sun in our hearts." The occasion was, according to its official title, "The Ninth National Congress of the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China...
...very fact that the congress was convened at all showed that Mao had made at least some progress toward domestic peace. According to the 1956 party's constitution, the congress should have been held in 1961, but it was delayed. Mao wanted to convene it last year but nationwide chaos stirred up by his Cultural Revolution forced one postponement after another. The revolution, he had originally hoped, would rekindle the zealous spirit that spurred Chinese Communists to emerge from the caves of Yenan and conquer all of China after World War II. It would also, Mao thought, reinvigorate...
...opened the congress with a short televised speech. He appeared robust and rotund despite his 75 years. The main address was delivered by his chosen successor, Defense Minister Lin Piao (see box). Hunched on a stool, the frail Lin, 61, read a thick manuscript that analyzed the results of the Cultural Revolution and set out the newest orders for the party. After Lin's address, the 1,512 delegates split up into working groups to discuss Lin's report...