Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speechwriters and idea men. They are expected to do much the same work in the White House. Price was once a LIFE reporter, later joined the old New York Herald Tribune and rose to become its chief editorial writer. Buchanan was an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...Harris poll last week showed that 79% of the nation favors electoral reform. Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh has scheduled Senate subcommittee hearings for January on a constitutional amendment providing for direct popular election of the President and Vice President. New York's Emanuel Celler will hold similar hearings in the House. "We have flirted," said Bayh, "with the most dangerous constitutional crisis faced by the United States in a long time...
...Oregon's senatorial race, the Election Night suspense persisted for days. Last week it became obvious that, in one of 1968's major upsets, 36-year-old Portland Attorney Robert W. Packwood had dislodged Democrat Wayne Morse, 68, from the Senate seat that he has occupied for 24 years. At week's end, Packwood held a thin 3,554 margin over Morse out of 814,418 votes cast. Morse will demand a recount. Unless it reverses the verdict, however, the brilliantly erratic Democrat-and onetime Republican-will retire to raise cattle on his Willamette Valley farm...
...polemicist and unrepentant maverick, Morse appealed to Oregonians with his independence, even when many of them disagreed with his passionate criticism of the war. But over the years, his army of political enemies increased. Republicans never quite forgave him for abandoning the G.O.P. in 1952, and later becoming a Democrat. Two years ago, he reversed field by supporting dovish Republican Mark Hatfield for the Senate, thus embittering thousands of Oregon Democrats...
...going to wrap it all up-have a birthday party for the baby, an open house for the new wing, and I'm going to conduct Happy Birthday." Mrs. Robert Wolfson paid $2,000 for a walk-on part in the TV series, Mission Imposible; St. Louis Globe-Democrat Publisher G. Duncan Bauman bid $2,500 for a Chinese dinner with and by Danny Kaye; and others fought over a chance to play tennis with Jack Kramer, to write a bylined 500-word article for the Globe-Democrat, or attend the Inaugural Ball...