Word: democratics
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When you are the first Republican mayor of your city in three decades, and, what is more, Democrats there outnumber Republicans 8 to 1, it behooves you to run, at the very least, a shrewd re-election campaign. Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk has been doing just that, and last week he won 56% of the vote in the nominating primary against Millionaire Democrat James M. Carney.* Perk took office two years ago, succeeding Carl Stokes and changing the tone of city hall from soul food to sauerkraut. To unseat him, Carney, an attorney and land developer, seemed...
...governor said that he advised Nixon to choose either a Democrat, an apolitical figure, or a Republican with a long party record. He said that whoever assumes the position should not consider it a "launching pad" for future aspirations...
...Lester Barrett, one of his senior law associates and now a judge in Baltimore County, persuaded him to shift from Democrat to Republican in the early 1950s and thus when he was elected county executive in 1962 he became the first Republican to hold the office in Baltimore County since...
Hall Patrol. In the crunch last week, the Armed Forces and their Senate allies, who were led by Washington Democrat Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, mounted a remarkable goal-line stand. Their toughest test was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment to cut the 471,000 U.S. land-based troops stationed abroad by 40% over the next three years. To nearly everyone's surprise, the Senate, in a technical vote on the language of the amendment, approved the measure by a vote of 49 to 46. It was five hours later before the actual vote on the amendment itself took...
After three weeks of heavyhanded military rule, some Chileans who at first supported the coup were beginning to have second thoughts. Leaders of the moderate Christian Democrat Party, stung because they had been unexpectedly suppressed when the Socialists and Communists were banned, advised their members to serve the junta only as "technicians." The new government, however, appeared to have general support from the middle and upper classes. The truckers, whose 45-day strike was partly responsible for instigating the coup, were on the road again. "Those trucks started up out of pure joy," said one trucker. Copper mines, plagued...