Word: labor
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Once the conventions are over, that situation will change rapidly. Millions now growl: "I don't like any of them." By Labor Day, they will have a clear choice between two major-party candidates rather than among the current profusion of possible Presidents. Rockefeller talks of a "clean break, a clean slate and a clean start." Those are words of challenge. But each of the candidates, in his own way, is after the same thing. For the chief challenge to each is not so much to defeat his nearest rival as the task of finding a solution to what ails...
...Nekkid Girl. Fulbright is still the leader in preprimary polls, but he faces a broad spectrum of dissatisfaction in Arkansas. The state's many hawks are angered by his Viet Nam stand. Labor officials are testy about his indifference. Negroes and white liberals are fed up with his consistent votes against civil rights laws, most recently open housing. He has even irritated some up-country puritans because he wrote an article for Playboy that appeared embarrassingly close to a gatefold photograph of what one foe described, in a shocked voice, as "a nekkid girl...
Differences have sharpened within his own Labor Party this year; three Cabinet Ministers have resigned over policy disputes and Wilson's high-handed ways. Though no challenger loomed, many in Britain thought that Wilson would soon have to yield power to a leader who could command more respect. But this week, as Parliament recesses, Harold Wilson has snapped back sufficiently to ensure that he will be at the helm when the Labor Party holds its national conference in September...
...Europe's central bankers showed their confidence in the pound by giving Britain $2 billion in new stand-by credits to defend it. A Daily Mail poll showed that the massive Tory lead of 23.5% in April had been cut to 13.5% this month. Then, last week, Labor scored its second parliamentary by-election victory in five weeks. The win at Caerphilly, Wales, was narrow for a traditionally safe Labor seat, but it at least maintained Wilson's 72-seat edge over the Tories...
...united against him. While he may be the least popular Prime Minister in three decades, Wilson has the pleasure of knowing that Tory Leader Ted Heath is the least-regarded opposition leader of the era. Heath is having as much difficulty controlling the Tories as Wilson is having with Labor. Last spring, when right-wing M.P. Enoch Powell unleashed a virulent anti-immigration speech in Birmingham. Heath fired him from the shadow Cabinet. Two weeks ago, ignoring party policy, 45 backbenchers hooted down their own leaders and voted against a race-relations bill that broadly outlaws discrimination...