Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rallied millions of voters to an alternate view of these questions. From the start, there was little substantive difference between Kennedy and his rival in the primaries, Eugene McCarthy, and their agreement was driven home by the televised debate a week ago. Together, as Kennedy pointed out after his defeat in Oregon, they swamped Humphrey-Johnson stand-in tickets in every primary. McCarthy workers who have shocked the pundits twice already this year should redouble their efforts to win the nomination. Kennedy's supporters now should join in that effort...
...something. I just couldn't get much response." By then it was too late. McCarthy got 45% of the vote, Kennedy 39%, Johnson (whose abdication came too late to permit his removal from the ballot) 12%, and Humphrey 4%, as a write-in candidate. It was the first defeat suffered by any of the three Kennedy brothers in the 27 primary and general-election campaigns they have waged since John F. first ran for Congress...
...other James Baldwin is the questing novelist, the private man loaded down with personal problems that he must defeat-or be defeated by. This is the Baldwin who with his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, marvelously evoked a Harlem boyhood nurtured in a storefront church. It is the Baldwin who, with post-Gide candor, courageously rendered the homosexual experience in his second novel, Giovanni's Room. But this is also the writer who six years ago turned out the deeply disappointing novel, Another Country, a lengthy excursion into the world of bisexuality...
Only eight days ago his Presidential hopes were considerably dimmed by a surprisingly heavy defeat at the hands of Senator McCarthy and his enthusiastic band of youthful supporters in Oregon. Kennedy had earlier defeated McCarthy in the Indiana and Nebraska primaries...
...candidates, however, publicly placed a good deal of stock in the Oregon vote--even though Oregon lacked large black and lower-middle class elements of the Democratic coalition. After Kennedy lost, he hinted broadly that he would quit this year's campaign if he lost in California. Kennedy's defeat was especially poignant since it was the first loss of his dynastic family had sustained since his grandfather, former Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald lost a Senate race to Henry Cabot Lodge...