Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major questions in Virginia is how soon Spong will join the battle to elect the progressive leaders the state needs to cope with its emerging industrial and urban character. Despite his natural tendency to stay aloof from day-to-day political maneuvering, he feels that "this is something I can't just walk away from." It seems likely that in one or two years, after he has established himself in the Senate, Spong will take a much more active interest in "party committees and conventions"--as well as elections...
...other pressing presidential problems. Last week, the President took time from his worries to name James H. Rowe Jr., an old friend and political adviser, to head the Citizens Committee for Johnson and Humphrey, a volunteer organization that will drum up support for the President's reelection, as "Elect A.B.J." (Anyone But Johnson) buttons were being increasingly displayed. The President also told a meeting of state directors of the U.S. Employment Service that the hard-core unemployed must be trained and given jobs so that the U.S. will remain a "bustling, thriving, go-go nation...
...Medical School, which are much less controversial than the changes approved yesterday, are expected to come to a vote this spring, a Faculty spokesman said last night. The third year would be devoted mainly to work in the hospitals. In the fourth year, students would be free to elect their entire program...
Wallace is likely to carry Mississippi and Alabama, may win Louisiana and Georgia as well. Outside those strongholds of the Deepest South, his chief impact may well be to help re-elect Lyndon Johnson by siphoning away Republican votes. Last month in Washington, in fact, Florida's G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk charged that Wallace was being promoted as a candidate by Democrats close to the President. Kirk's conspiracy theory gained some credence when some of L.B.J.'s operatives quietly encouraged loyal California Democrats last December to promote the former Alabama Governor's drive...
...runners have provided the biggest thrills of the season. Last Friday, the Lowell House two-mile relay team--Jim Baker, George Burns. Roy Shaw, and Dave McKelvey--upset a highly-touted Villanova team in near world record time. Doug Hardin, the cross-country captain-elect, broke the Harvard two-mile record: and both Shaw and Baker have run superb miles...