Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he was once a professor of "argumentation." For the past 23 years, his flair for public argy-bargy has persuaded Oregon's voters to keep him in the U.S. Senate-even while he performed his maverick metempsychoses from Republican to independent in 1952 and from independent to Democrat in 1954. This year for the first time, the professor very nearly lost his podium...
...year-old New York Democrat was quickly rushed to a local receiving hospital, administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, given transfusions of plasma, and in less than an hour transferred for surgery to the Good Samaritan Hospital 12 blocks away...
Wanted: Wilbur Mills. The arrests were made when more than 200 demonstrators marched to the Hill to demand that Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills and his potent House Ways and Means Committee repeal recent amendments limiting eligibility for the Aid for Dependent Children program. Mills has supplanted Lyndon Johnson as the pet hate of Negro militants-they plan to put up "Wanted" posters throughout the city, charging the Congressman with "conspiracy against children." Mills refused to see a delegation of the protesters. "I don't convene the committee on anyone's demands, not even the President...
...question that pols put to their pollsters is not "Who's going to win?" but "What's bugging the voters?" Polls help candidates to identify their own negatives, and then change those characteristics that voters find unattractive. Taking advice from their pollsters, California Democratic Chief Jesse Unruh peeled off 90 lbs. to reshape his corpulent boss image, and Pennsylvania Democrat Milton Shapp discarded his maroon socks (but lost the 1966 gubernatorial race anyway). Candidates also use private polls to find out where the large and decisive mass of swing voters is located, and then concentrate their campaigning...
There are hundreds of less noble, but no less valid, examples. Coleen Dishon of the Chicago Daily News had a phony invitation printed so her society editor could attend the 1967 wedding of Republican Senator Charles Percy's daughter Sharon Lee to Democrat John D. Rockefeller IV. Crusty Harry Romanoff, 76, of the Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details...