Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition under McCarthyite the Rev. Joseph Duffey is concentrating on re-electing Ribicoff in '68 (hated by the old guard after his anti-Daley Chicago speech), on lobbying for a progressive legislative program in '69, and taking on Dodd in '70. They are furiously building a grass-roots organization...
There are two legal Democratic parties in the state--no one knows what will happen, though the traditional party of Gov. Lester Maddox might reconstitute itself after November as a grass roots Wallacite party. A biracial coalition of white urban liberals like Charles Longstreet Weltner from progressive Altanta and black community leader state Rep. Julian Bond comprise the new party. Old-style moderates like former Gov. Carl Sanders and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen will soon have to make a decision on which party--the redneck Maddox majority or the chronic minority liberals--they will go with...
...professor John C. Resenbrink hope to stem the party's growing "complacency and conservatism". The new group represents a real coalition of Kennedy and McCarthy people. Legislative lobbying and the 1970 party elections are the two objectives of the reformers activities. Resenbrink's group will be building at the grass-roots for the next two years in high hopes of taking over the state party. Most observers consider a coup unlikely in a state where labor is still loyal and Senator or vice president Muskie is both important and progressive...
...McCarthy people put together a strong grass roots organization in the state this year. Future plans are not known at the present time...
...roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level of department-store-modern respectability...