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...tool, in fact, is not new at all: the U.S. Postal Service. Through direct-mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except one: direct...
...McCarney, "king of the referendum," is more than a politician's foe. He's the foe of everyone interested in more than immediate monetary gain. Those buildings mentioned so casually in your article are desperately needed university facilities. If McCarney had his way, our state universities would simply be starved of funds till they died a natural death...
...July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took 34%; U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick, a Miller friend turned foe, picked up 26%. And only half the 277,000 active and retired miners who were eligible to vote bothered...
...campaign pits incumbent President Arnold Miller, 54, a taciturn, pallid veteran of 22 years in the mines, against an old friend and an old foe. The former ally is Patrick, 46, a fiery reformer who helped Miller oust the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago; Patrick is now U.M.W. secretary-treasurer. The longtime Miller opponent is Lee Roy Patterson, 42, a onetime crony of Boyle's and a member of the union's executive board. Miller appears to be the front runner; Patterson, benefiting from a split in the reform vote between Miller and Patrick...
Kirtley Mather, who gave written testimony in the defense of John T. Scopes in 1925 and as chairman of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts from 1946 to 1949, was an early and outspoken foe of McCarthyism...