Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carroll Stollenwerck, president, Laird...
...upheaval too. Last month Michigan's Gerald Ford (see following story) had challenged the floor leadership of Charlie Halleck-on the grounds that old Charlie just did not fit the forward-looking image the party needed. Backing Ford was a group of rebels, including Wisconsin's Mel Laird, chairman of the G.O.P. Convention's Platform Committee at San Francisco, who went after the chairmanship of the Republican House caucus. It was a bitter fight, complicated by the fact that Conservatives Ford and Laird are anathema to some liberal Republicans. In a fit of pique, New York...
Michael Rebell '65 and Laird Kirk-patrick '65 defeated Loyola University for the championship, and a team of Frank White '66 and Cheng Teik Goh '66 finished second on the basis of won-lost record and total points...
...Platform Committee was chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, himself an unannounced Goldwater backer. It struck out against costly, deficit-creating federal paternalism in a way that went well beyond the 1960 Republican platform. It approved a platform of conservatism in the word's dictionary sense, promising tightfisted fiscal policy, deploring pervasive federal influence, and urging local action to deal with local problems. Foreign-policy planks have a distinctive hard-line look about them, promising staunch stands against Communist threats, expressing general skepticism of the idea that the Soviet Union has relaxed...
Catcalls & Jeers. To start off the bout, Platform Chairman Melvin Laird arose before delegates already weary and bored after nearly three hours of sitting. For more than an hour and a half Laird, assisted by other committee members, droned through the entire 8,500-word platform. When they finished, it was nearly midnight on the East Coast...