Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underdog. In last week's primary. Oregon Democrats allowed Eugene McCarthy to check Robert Kennedy's drive, while the Republicans gave new velocity to Richard Nixon's bid for the nomination. By so doing, Oregonians made it more likely than ever that the post-convention contest would be between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two ostensible traditionalists in the crowd...
Last week the girls cleared the field again. When the eleven men and twelve women had finished playing their way through the single contest piece-Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations-the judges gave the first prize of $1,000 to Toronto Pianist Mari-Elizabeth Morgen, 23. Mari-Elizabeth was so sure that she would not get past the semifinals that she brought only one dress to Washington. That was her only mistake; at the piano, she was flawless-poised, professional, and in full control of the knuckle-crunching requirements of the Goldbergs.* Second and third prizes were given...
...combative dialogue was not hard to explain. With the Oregon primary this week and the California primary June 4, the Democratic contest was nearing a possible shakedown. In the past, McCarthy has genially admitted that he and Kennedy are not far apart on basic issues, but last week he associated the New Yorker with the "disastrous" policies that led to the war. "Those policies were not merely the product of specific misjudgments," he said. "Rather, they grew from a systematic misconception of America and its role in the world. I am not convinced that Senator Kennedy has entirely renounced that...
...McCarthy, the California primary. The Don Muchmore Poll predicts 40% of the vote for Kennedy, 25% for McCarthy, and 25% for Attorney General Thomas Lynch, who entered the race for President Johnson and is now assumed to be Humphrey's surrogate. Bobby fared surprisingly well in one nonelective contest last week, picking up a minimum of 25 of Iowa's 46 delegate votes (v. about ten for Humphrey, five for McCarthy) at the state convention in Des Moines...
...other major contest, Oregon Democrats passed over former Congressman Robert Duncan to hand Senator Wayne Morse nomination to a sixth term...