Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an innovative superintendent of education, he has, according to a friendly critic, "been magnificent on the soup circuit and the P.T.A.'s love him to death." He promises to be just as flashy and captivating on the campaign trail for the nomination in the June 4 primary. Democrats are quietly rooting for a Rafferty victory. They believe that with the party's 4-to-3 majority over registered Republicans in the state, Conservative Rafferty would be easier to beat in a general election than Liberal Kuchel. No Democrat of national stature has yet entered the primary campaign...
Despite such assurance, aviation circles put a good part of the blame for the slowdown on politics. The program remains a prime target for a vociferous and growing minority. "A toy for the international jet set," Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called it in a Senate speech last fall. In his budget for the fiscal year starting next July, President Johnson has already trimmed his request for SST funds to $223 million, an $80.6 million increase from fiscal 1968 but only half of the boost that the Administration proposed last summer. Slowing development further would mollify congressional economizers by permitting additional...
...problem seems to be the Young Dems' failure to offer a coherent political ideology to its membership. Elliott Abrams '69, a candidate for president, has said, "An overwhelming majority of the members I've talked to haven't done any serious thinking about what it means to be a Democrat. They join because they think they're liberals, or because their parents are. It's Young Dems' job to help them articulate and act on a Liberal Democratic Ideology...
...DEMOCRATS Schism on the Left Eugene McCarthy's presidential challenge may not sunder the Democratic Party, but it has caused some damaging cracks in the liberal coalition of intellectuals and labor and civil rights leaders who make up the Americans for Democratic Action. Last week, after the A.D.A.'s board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse the Minnesota Democrat's campaign against the President, seven of its prominent members angrily resigned...
POVERTY Misery of Vortex Bathed in the unforgiving harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room schoolhouse at Vortex, Ky. The New Yorker, lowest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee, had come to assess the plight of once proud Appalachian mountaineers who rank today among the poorest of America's poor...