Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused to support Goldwater in 1964. Equally unrealistic...
...Conference for New Political Action, a dissident Democrat's group, hopes to show widespread voter disenchantment over the three major Presidential candidates with a straw poll in scattered Massachusetts precincts Tuesday...
...cent more than this year, while John F. Kennedy '40 got 56 per cent. In 1960 only five per cent did not choose major party candidates, while this year that figure has risen to about 25 per cent. 1960 was the first year in memory that a Democrat received an absolute majority in the poll...
...Room. The operation is run with virtuosity by National Chairman Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, 56, a North Carolina-born onetime Democrat who was Nixon's classmate at Duke University Law School and who switched to the G.O.P. this year. Rhyne, a former president of the American Bar Association and an expert in international law, is fascinated by computers. Before joining Nixon, he was busy feeding laws from around the world into electronic memory banks; he also publishes a monthly magazine called Law and Computer Technology. Rhyne expects to spend $2,000,000 coordinating more than 1,500 functioning Nixon-Agnew...
Whatever the eventual figures, the new House is not likely to be a homey place-for anybody. In all likelihood Democrats will bear the responsibility for running a House over which they will have little real control. The Republicans will probably elect more Representatives than at any time since the 33rd Congress (1953-54), when they had a majority in the House. But they are unlikely to elect enough to win formal control. Thus, aging Massachusetts Democrat John McCormack, 76 is likely to be elected to a fifth term as Speaker, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 55, will probably...