Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME overstated the Wisconsin State Journal's Republican sturdiness in saying that in more than 100 years it had "never supported a Democratic President" [Aug. 28]. Starting with John C. Fremont in 1856, the State Journal has endorsed an impressive list of Republican presidential candidates, but in 1912 and again in 1916 it supported Democrat Woodrow Wilson. At this date, the State Journal has made no formal endorsement for the 1964 election, but last June 22 it said that it "cannot support Senator Barry Goldwater for the presidency...
When Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield protested in a Senate speech that Humphrey actually opposed such positions and Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright fulminated that Miller was guilty of "foulmouthed vituperation," Miller turned furiously upon Fulbright, calling him "an apostle of retreat," "an advocate of accommodation," and a man who "spews forth venomous predictions...
...manifestation of democracy, Chile's voters overwhelmingly rejected Allende, rejected all the talk of Cuban-styled socialism, rejected all the Communists and leftists who supported him. By a vote of about 1,400,000 to 970,000, or 56%, they elected Eduardo Frei, 53, the tall, eloquent Christian Democrat, to be their President for the next six years...
Thus when he takes office on Nov. 4, Eduardo Frei will become the first Christian Democrat ever to be elected a President in Latin America. Eight years ago, when he founded his party, Frei's Christian Democrats commanded less than 7% of the national vote; last week they won an absolute majority. "This is a victory for Chile," sighed an exhausted Frei. "I want to say that I,will be President for all Chilenos, not just those who voted...
...chiefs of agencies that handle political accounts are often party faithful: Doyle Dane's William Bernbach is a devout Democrat, and Erwin Wasey's David B. Williams is a Republican regular. But many agencies are pragmatically bipartisan. Bobby Kennedy has placed the ad end of his New York campaign with Manhattan's Papert, Koenig, Lois because his advisers were impressed by its work for Republican Senator Jacob Javits...