Word: dems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian Democrats had won by more than 8% over their rivals. The C.D.U. polled 47.6% of the vote, up from 45.3% in 1961. The Social Democrats won 39.3% of the vote, for a gain of 3% . The only losers were Vice-Chancellor Erich Mende's Free Dem ocratic Party, whose percentage of the ballots slipped from 12.8% to 9.5%. The Christian Democrats elected 244 Deputies to the Bundestag, the Social Democrats 201, and the Free Democrats...
...French-or Russian-Revolution is simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more suspect than most Frenchmen who perished in the Terror, every...
Under oath, the mayor of New York City made an extraordinary charge. His political opponents within his own Dem ocratic Party, said Robert Wagner, had tried to buy off some of his supporters...
Michigan's Republican Governor, George Romney, emerged unscathed, indeed enhanced, from the Johnson landslide. He did it by reason of his own remarkable, evangelistic campaigning, which convinced more than 700,000 Michiganders-independents and Dem- ocrats, auto workers and Negroes-that thev should fractionate their feelings...
...Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis' prestigious Washington University and the strongest candidate fielded by the G.O.P. in more than a decade. The Governor-elect is a West Point graduate who served ten years in the state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island...