Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Innovations. In his battle to hold the First Congressional District-covering the eastern half of Cincinnati and Hamilton County-Gilligan bucks more than Taft tradition. He owed his election two years ago to the Goldwater debacle and is only the third Democrat to be elected from the district in this century.* The first two were retired after one term. And Bob Taft, 49, has more impressive credentials than his illustrious name. Elected four times to the Ohio house of representatives, where he served as the Republican floor leader, he won his first statewide race in 1962 to become Congressman...
...tight race. In less than two years, redhaired, blue-eyed Jack Gilligan, who never really stopped campaigning, has earned a reputation to match the motto on his placard: "The Congressman who gets things done." He opened a local office, started a newsletter-both innovations in the district -and even put out reports in Braille. He arranged free junkets to Washington for high school students and brought delegations of Washington officials to Cincinnati to discuss local problems with community leaders...
...shortage of clearly defined issues between the adversaries. Though they have exchanged many words over Viet Nam, both support the basic U.S. commitment there. Taft preaches "fiscal responsibility," while Gilligan argues that federal spending should, if anything, be increased; but this difference has stirred little passion in the district...
...thing that Taft possesses and Gilligan cannot match is a superefficient personal campaign organization that has divided the district into 15 zones, each with its own headquarters. Taft volunteers have canvassed house to house to dig out potential Taft voters and get them registered. The organization is even using a computer to expedite the footwork, and make sure that each canvasser is used to the best advantage. Each of the 15 zones will have a battery of ten telephones working on election eve and election day to remind the right voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct...
...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...