Word: democratize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that one Nixon staff man wondered aloud: "If we see a set of sideburns on someone around here, we start wondering where he's going." But the cause of whiskers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is not entirely lost. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Savile Row-tailored Democrat who is Nixon's urban affairs adviser, is definitely long about the ears. Defying all auguries, he was promoted last week to the post of Counselor to the President and given Cabinet rank...
...John V. Lindsay-tacking the support of either major political party-won his bid for re-election as Mayor of New York yesterday. Running on the Liberal and Independent tickets, he defeated Democrat Mario Procaccino and Republican-Conservative John Marchi...
Those voting against the Mayor will vote for either Republican-Conservative John Marchi, a Staten Island State Senator, or Democrat Mario Procaccino, the city's Comptroller. Lindsay, who lost the Republican primary to Marchi in June, is running on both Liberal and Independent tickets...
Whatever the results of the election, New York's party system will never be the same. Most liberal politicians have deserted their party's standard-bearers to support Lindsay. These include Herman Badillo and Percy Sutton, Democrat boroughpresidents of the Bronx and Manhattan and New York's Republican Senators, Charles Goodell and Jacob Javits...
Taking no chances on anyone's missing last week's crucial balloting, whips for the Socialists and Free Democrats summoned their delegates to Bonn a day early. The precaution worked. As the Bundestag convened for the Kanzlerwahl (Chancellor's election), each Socialist and Free Democrat was in his place. While the votes were being tabulated, Brandt resorted to his favorite method of relieving tension: he snapped wooden matchsticks, going through an entire box in 20 minutes. Then came the announcement: 251 votes for Brandt, two over the required absolute majority; 235 votes against him; five abstentions, presumably...