Word: enjoyable
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...Massachusetts Republican convention endorsed State Attorney General Edward Brooke, 46, who fills the highest elective office held by a U.S. Negro, for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Leverett Saltonstall, also backed Governor John Volpe for reelection. Though Massachusetts Democrats enjoy a 2-to-l registration edge, both Brooke and Volpe hope to profit from primary fights in the opposition ranks...
...resignation was of my own volition. I made that decision in order to launch a literacy campaign under auspices of the Center for Community Action Education to supplement the fight waged by the civil rights movement, lest, when equal opportunity is won, we find that many are unable to enjoy their new freedom. At my request CORE set up a committee, on which I served, to screen candidates for the post I was relinquishing. Mr. McKissick, a longtime personal friend, was the candidate who had my support...
Perhaps no one was more pleased than Chicago Lawyer Barry Kroll, who won the historic Escobedo case in the Supreme Court. "This decision means that the poor, uneducated and uninformed can now enjoy the rights that were previously only enjoyed by the wealthy and sophisticated," said Kroll. "The Escobedo case is now part of legal history. It will be looked upon as a real turning point in the administration of criminal law in this country...
...childish pronouncements on the draft [June 3] of those who would enjoy the harvest without the labor are empty and redundant. Joe College '66 is a sad, disgusting example for my children to have to follow. He tempts me to resign to avoid contributing to the security in which he is free to demur and complain...
Beginner's Skill. By attracting more votes than Brown in a state where the Democrats enjoy a 3-to-2 registration advantage, Los Angeles' Reagan rattled political seismographs from coast to coast. In the 1958 and 1962 primaries, after all, Brown ran well ahead of William Knowland and Dick Nixon, both well-established G.O.P. leaders. Reagan, making his first bid for public office, had been accorded a modest margin by the pollsters, who had unanimously predicted a smashing plurality for Brown...