Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RONALD v. DELLUMS. They ate watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker...
LOUISE DAY HICKS. "You know where she stands" was a campaign slogan of Boston Democrat Louise Day Hicks. Indeed they know. All they need to do is to remember Mrs. Hicks' unsuccessful but formidable 1967 campaign for mayor, in which she clearly explained her views on neighborhood schools, her admiration for blue collar workers, her enthusiasm for law-and-order. This time Mrs. Hicks, 52, barely bothered to campaign. She limited her appearances to small gatherings in constituents' homes, eschewing debate with Republican Laurence Curtis, a former Congressman, and Independent Dove Daniel J. Hou-ton, a Viet...
Early in the campaign, Rafferty topped the polls and entranced his admirers by blasting unruly students, the decline of "moral" instruction and busing for school desegregation. Yet Rafferty had fallen out of favor with many Republicans two years ago, when his blustery senatorial campaign lost the seat to a Democrat. Last March fiscal conservatives were dismayed by a non-partisan study that cited waste and inefficiency in Rafferty's department...
...impossible. Herbert Stein, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, calculates that if full employment is to be reached on schedule, real gross national product-not counting price increases-must grow at an annual rate of 6%. His estimate closely parallels the view of Democrat Walter Heller, a former CEA chairman. Said Heller last week: "I am happy to see that they are starting to catch up with our arithmetic." The economy is far away from Stein's goal. Real G.N.P. rose only 1.4% in this year's third quarter, and it may decline...
...business. Strong criticism of the IRS came from one of the Administration's staunch backers. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford wired the White House that the proposed IRS policy change could effectively block citizen efforts to protect the environment. And North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, a conservative Democrat, charged that the IRS denial of tax exemptions could endanger the First Amendment right to free expression. By withdrawing the exemptions for organizations seeking redress in the courts, wrote Ervin, the IRS "is striking at the heart of one of the most effective, traditional and basic American freedoms...