Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wildavsky's thesis is that the best chance of maintaining a stable two-party system is for Nixon to win. Out of power, the Democratic dissidents could work to capture control of the party from a discredited leadership...
Predicting a House decision is obviously impossible at this point. Even if the Democrats retained control of a majority of the delegations, some individual Congressmen, under pressure from constituencies or conscience, might bolt the party. Many Southern Democrats, whether pro or anti-Wallace, might turn against the Administration leadership and vote the way their districts did-presumably for the Alabamian...
...efforts to increase the leading role of the Communist Party." Most important of all, the agreement provides for reinforcing the party and government with "true Marxist-Leninists" -a qualification that, in effect, lets Moscow pass on the orthodoxy of all important appointees in Czechoslovakia. Having failed to subvert the leadership's intense loyalty to Dubček, the Kremlin has seemingly decided to undermine it by attrition...
...months of "ultimately rewarding" belt tightening, as Jenkins proposed. By a margin of 5 to 1, they gave resounding approval to the defiant Cousins' resolution. It was the first time that a party conference had split with the government on a key issue since Wilson assumed the Labor leadership in 1963. The vote was thus a stinging rebuke to Wilson personally, but it will have no immediate effect on the Labor government's economic policies, because wage and price restraints are now the law. The vote will make more difficult the renewal of the measures when they expire...
Dudley House, under the leadership of Master Thomas E. Crooks '49 and Joe West '70, has organized the cabaret, which it hopes to continue on Saturday nights throughout the year. "It will be a place for people to gather, to meet, and to enjoy live entertainment--without getting scalped blind in the process," West said yesterday...