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...wanted to remind people of the lessons of the war, to make a link with the future," said Christina Cowger, a representative of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, which sponsored the day of lecturex and exhibits. "We're trying to link Victnam with the future because the war taught us that the government can't fight an unpopular war if the citizens won't support it," she added...
...Republicans reinvoked an old slogan: "It's time for a change." As it happened, it worked. Last week, over the opposition of the Louisville Courier-Journal and despite a lopsided Democratic registration superiority, the voters in Kentucky's largest city (pop. 390,639) elected Republican William O. Cowger, 39, as mayor, his first political office, and gave the G.O.P. a sweep of the board of aldermen...
Labor leaders were impressed by Cowger's flat condemnation of right-to-work proposals. Negroes (some 15,000 of whom voted) disliked the Democratic regime's opposition to forced integration of eating places, were influenced by the rumor that the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council were supporting the Democratic candidate, William S. Milburn...