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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier polls had shown that one of Scranton's greatest handicaps was that he was not broadly known across the U.S. But this week Gallup released the results of a new poll that demonstrated how dramatically the Scranton campaign has changed that picture. Gallup reported that rank-and-file Republicans now prefer Scranton over Goldwater, 55% to 34%. Just as significantly, among independent voters-and the G.O.P. will need plenty of them to defeat Johnson-Scranton is preferred by 62% to Goldwater...
...rank-and-file Goldwater followers emphatically did not agree. And it quickly became clear that they had the votes to require that two of the three top national delegation officers be signed-in-blood Barry backers, thereby eliminating either Dirksen or, preferably, Percy. Dirksen was furious. "This is awful," he told Percy. "I'm going to make a fight of this...
...that Reuther will seek a wage raise on top of the annual boost of 2.5% or 6? an hour-whichever is higher-that the auto companies already award for higher productivity. A still more important issue will be his demand for earlier retirement and fatter pensions. The rank and file have been pressing their leaders for a plan to cut mandatory retirement age from 68 to 65, to reduce the voluntary retirement age from 60 to something less and to raise pensions to a minimum of $400 a month, including social security benefits...
...were upset over the bill's equal-employment-opportunity section. To a certain extent, Dirksen agreed with them; his own Illinois has strong laws in this area, and Ev found that the bill might usurp states' jurisdiction. His amendment took away the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's right to file suits...
...bottle of whisky, stopping at intermittent bars, where they are worsted by all the local Cyclops and Circes. Finally, they barge into the funeral parlor, snort, giggle and guffaw over the rabbi's sermon-obviously they knew Leslie so much better than the rabbi ever did. They file past the bier, peer in -whoops, the cadaver is not Leslie. Wrong funeral parlor...