Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Careful Cajolery. When he ran for the nonpartisan office last fall, Johnsonian Democrat Alioto-who made his fortune as a lawyer specializing in antitrust cases-was regarded as the least unqualified of a lackluster lot of candidates. He won, with a landslide 15,000-vote margin over the closest of 17 opponents (TIME, Nov. 3), and San Franciscans anticipated another administration devoted to parochial self-puffery. Not so. Alioto has come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera...
Vermonters did not make up their minds easily. Before passage, the bill faced a mini-filibuster in the legislature while anguished outdoor admen argued that the billboard ban would boomerang on business. Governor Philip H. Hoff, a Democrat and a staunch supporter of the legislation, contended that, on the contrary, "by making our highways more attractive, we will improve business...
...student-organized fund-raising group for Senator Eugene J. McCarthy is phoning every undergraduate at Harvard and Radcliffe to raise money for the Minnesota Democrat's presidential campaign...
...Harvard senior lost his bid for nomination to the Florida delegation to the Democratic National Convention yesterday because he is not a Democrat. His candidacy for district delegate was barred at the state level...
Died. Khuang Aphaiwong, 66, founder of Thailand's Democrat Party and three times Premier; of cancer; in Bangkok. After joining with Pridi Phano-myong in the 1932 coup d'état that established a constitutional monarchy, Khuang championed economic reforms and, as Premier during the turbulent years from 1944 to 1948, urged pro-Western policies before he himself was overthrown by a military coup...