Word: democratization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nonetheless, Stokes emerged from the primary as the clear favorite in the general election. He was an experienced, chipper, charismatic campaigner who could beguile white suburban clubwomen at tea and rap with soul brothers in Hough. He was a Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...
Baltimore: Double Exposure Baltimore's mayoral race ended not in a photo finish but a double exposure. Democrat Thomas D'Alesandro III, 38, a five-year president of the city council, succeeded to the mayor's office that his father, Tommy D'Alesandro Jr., had occupied from 1947 to 1959. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5 to 1, young D'Alesandro defeated G.O.P. Moderate Arthur W. Sherwood...
Among its opponents: Attorney-Businessman Joseph Alioto, 51, a self-made millionaire, who handily won the city's mayoral race with 109,982 votes over Attorney-Restaurant Owner Harold Dobbs (94,089). A moderate Democrat and political newcomer who had the support of both Big Labor and retiring Mayor Jack Shelley, Alioto promised that his first action would be to reduce the tax burden on homeowners...
Republican Candidate Arlen Specter, 37, district attorney and onetime liberal Democrat, ran a cautious campaign. Heeding Pollster E. John Bucci, who gave him a 2-to-1 edge at the outset of the campaign, he fought a defensive battle to keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...
...Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...