Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glaring funding imbalances, however, occur on the state and local level. In 1966 Governor Rockefeller spent $7 million in winning the governorship of New York. His opponent, Frank O'Connor, was able to scrape up only a half million. If O'Connor were to run again in 1970, he would receive no money. But based on the Long formula, struggling candidate Lyndon Johnson may receive 30 million dollars in 1968. Financing presidential campaigns may suit Lyndon Johnson's plans for '68, but it hardly suits Long's rhetoric (studded with references to the "poor boy making good" and boys from...
...organization did not begin to consider the Lindsay/Ungar threat a serious one until the Rockfeller campaign for Governor in 1966. All through the summer the polls showed O'Connor comfortably ahead and the situation seemed hopeless for the Republicans. Rockefeller asked Archinal and Fino to get a grass-roots campaign rolling for him on the Price storefront Model which had been so effective in the mayoral race. Storefronts were set up but the organization lacked the man-power to run them. Meanwhile, Lindsay Republicans gleefully sat back and watched the regular organization flounder. Then, five weeks before election day when...
...Family, O'Connor...
Died. Sir William Neil Connor, 57, British columnist better known as "Cas sandra," who for 31 years in the London Daily Mirror cut and thrust with fine partiality and fierce wit at everything from Germany to Radio Moscow and Joe McCarthy, plus sports, doctors, dogs, commercial TV and many of its performers; after a long illness; in London. Cassandra once described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love." And thereupon Liberace sued for libel and won a $22,400 judgment...
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