Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael Harrington, author of The Other America and The Accidental Century, is speaking at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall on "How the McCarthy Movement Can Gain a Majority for Change in America...
...group finally agreed to seek a meeting with the members of the Wilson Committee at Harvard, to make arrangements for a conference with Killian at M.I.T., and to seek a special meeting of the City Council on October 9 to gain Council backing for their demands...
...Cleaver would have monopolized the course. He was to have been one of 12 speakers, including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
...more than forty per cent of the state. Their muscle was reflected in the September 1 state convention when party leaders in a harmony effort neglected to bring up a resolution calling for a Humphrey endorsement. With Humphrey's anticipated defeat, New Caucus forces will probably be able to gain important allies of Detroit Mayor Jerry Cavanagh and black Cong. John Conyors' power and take the party leadership...
...conservatives don't unite behind moderate gubernatorial candidate William Battle in the 1969 party primary, then Howell, the liberal choice, may win the nomination--although probably lose the general election to a strong GOP candidate. In either case, the liberal faction, while now just a strong minority, will gain power as the state continues its de-Southernization campaign...