Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote. Actually, despite the Republican's more liberal racial views, most Virginia Negroes appear reluctant to swing back so soon to the party that ran Barry Goldwater only last year; few black faces were seen among the crowds that heard Holton and Nixon last week. Nonetheless, Holton may gain unexpected strength from a sizable new voting element: the young federal employees and their families who have fanned out across the Potomac to settle in Virginia's Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Many are mobile, highly professional newcomers who have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed...
...three-week-old New York newspaper strike had been turned down by the Newspaper Guild and the New York Times last week merely as a matter of strategy. Had either side said yes, the other side would have surely said no-hopeful that by further bargaining it might gain something beyond Kheel's suggested compromises. Once they had recorded their unwillingness to give way any more, though, both the weary antagonists were quick to accede to Mayor Robert Wagner's suggestion that they change their minds, agree with Kheel, and go back to work. At week...
...backwards to be fair to the people we disagree with," says Lottman. The Courier even had some kind words about Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy, killed last August in an automobile crash. Murphy, the paper noted, had often defended Negro clients and had helped a Negro lawyer to gain admittance to the Alabama...
...James Burke (D-Brockton), the bill's sponsor, estimated it would take about thirty days for the legislation to gain the approval of both houses and reach the governor's desk. A public hearing before the Joint Committee on State Administration will probably be held next Wednesday or Thursday, he said...
Nixon, who has been charged with strategic errors involving civil rights in his 1960 campaign, claimed that Republicans can gain in the South "by being conservative on economic issues and moderate on civil rights...