Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the members of Congress were worried about what Ford's pardoning of Nixon did to the nation's standards of equality under the law. California's Don Edwards, a liberal Democrat, wondered how Ford would explain American justice to his students if he were a high school teacher in Watts or Harlem. Ford's reply was that Nixon was the only President to resign in shame and disgrace; that, he implied, was punishment enough. South Carolina's James R. Mann, a conservative Democrat, asked if Ford agreed with "the maxim that...
Edwin B. Newman, professor of Psychology, is Republican candidate in the Second Middlesex, including residents at Radcliffe, the Divinity School, the Law School, Yard and Union dorms, and Harvard Houses, excluding Dunster, Leverett and Mather. He challenges incumbent Democrat Thomas Mahoney, professor of History...
...only real issue between the two Florida candidates is which one has the most energy. Democrat Richard Stone, 46, gathered no moss when he rolled through the state's 67 counties in a breathtaking 15 days. Republican Jack Eckerd, 61, is almost as fast. In the contest to replace G.O.P. Senator Edward Gurney, the member of the Senate Watergate Committee who is now under indictment for conspiracy, bribery and lying to a grand jury, Eckerd has a huge recognition edge. His is a familiar household name, since one of his 422 drugstores can be found in almost every town...
...while Young was some 3,000 miles away in Washington, Democrat Willie Hensley, 33, an Eskimo, started to catch up. After graduating from George Washington University, Hensley concentrated on lobbying for federal aid for Alaska, helped win restoration of some 40 million acres to the state's natives, was elected a state senator in 1970. Hensley, who attacks the Republican Administration in Washington for not paying proper attention to Alaska, has a better than even chance of becoming the first Eskimo in Congress...
...zest for reform did not last very long. By a vote of 203 to 165, the House rejected a far-reaching committee-realignment bill proposed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling (TIME...