Word: electics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake. The N.A.A.C.P. is launching a massive voter-registration drive, which could give the city, with a majority Negro population, a Negro mayor within a few years. (Some delegates to the black power conference did not want to wait that long, announced that they would seek a special election to recall Addonizio and elect a Negro.) The business community formed a committee to seek financial help for merchants whose shops were destroyed. Some 60 whites and Negroes established a Committee of Concern to examine problems of housing, voter registration, legal aid, welfare and education...
...regional vice-chairmanship. Shepherd Spunt of Brookline received the recommendation of two states recently captured by the conservative politicos--Rhode Island and Connecticut. The YRNF had appointed Spunt "regional director" for New England three years ago, but he had performed so badly that Massachusetts YR's refused to elect him a delegate to either of the last two conventions. Nevertheless, with the national chairman's backing, he won the convention over Brandt, who was tagged as an associate of the liberal Ripon Society...
Organized 98 years ago, the Prohis hit their high watermark in 1892, when their presidential candidate got 271,058 votes. Since then, they have endured a long, dry spell at the polls. Their most notable victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof...
Republican Barry Goldwater, for one, took a dim view of Wallace's machinations. "Wallace can elect Johnson more than anything you can think of," said Barry at a California meeting of businessmen. He pegged the G.O.P.'s 1968 presidential chances at "less than fifty-fifty": Wallace's candidacy would cut deeply into the votes for a moderate Republican, especially in the South...
...acclamation, the delegates chose Dr. Dwight Locke Wilbur, 63, a San Francisco gastroenterologist, as the organization's president-elect to take office next June. He is one of two doctor sons of the late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, longtime president of Stanford University, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, and A.M.A. president in 1923-24. Wilbur will be the first president in the A.M.A.'s 120-year history whose father also served in the office...