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...whole string of cliches has come into being since the Republican Party's defeat in the November elections. A minority faction grabbed control of the minority party. A candidate outside the you-know-what of American politics antagonized millions of independent and Republican voters. The only solution is for the Republican Party to turn back toward the center, starting right down at the precinct level, to unify the party around a man like Ike Eisenhower or Dick Nixon, to present constructive alternatives to Democratic proposals, to get young energetic candidates...
...central issue in the controversy was the system of wage differentials that has been in effect since 1962, when the BGMA was expanded to include all skilled and unskilled employees of the University. The skilled workers of the MTERA wished to retain the system. The BGMA faction favored re-institution of a flat wage rate for all trades...
Communist China's blueprint for dividing the world into white and colored camps and emerging as the leader of the colored faction, "is much more racist than Communistic," he said...
...fails to return after setting such a specific deadline, his disappointed followers may finally write off their old hero. In that case, El Lobo would be in position to convert himself from Perón lieutenant to genuine leader of the largest political faction in Argentina...
...This issue has gone too far. I ask you why should we endorse the national ticket when our club has been shattered by it--our membership in disarray," Robert L. Beal '63, the first speaker for the faction opposing endorsement, said...