Word: lloyd
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...Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly rejecting all talk of a campaign, Humphrey is increasingly seen as a unifier who can keep the factious Democratic Party together. He still maintains loyal support among labor, blacks and farmers. Says a staffer on the national committee: "Any other candidate who depended on support from these groups would find Humphrey...
...Susan Lloyd...
...lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about 50,000 members, as well as some 700 chapters of auxiliary organizations for women, boys and girls. AHEPA headquarters raised $165,000 to run newspaper-ad campaigns...
...regardless of race. Crime rates in tawdry sections of Chicago have remained high over the decades, though inhabited at different times by Swedes, Poles, Germans, Italians, Syrians and blacks. Says Sociologist Lloyd Ohlin: "Slums of the big cities have always been the main source of recruitment to street crime, no matter who lived there." Says Norval Morris: "It is trite but it remains true that the main causes of crime are social and economic. The question arises whether people really care. The solutions are so obvious. It's almost as if America wished for a high crime rate...
Roughly the same argument is made by other Southerners in the race: Georgia's Jimmy Carter, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Oklahoma's Fred Harris. So many more Democrats are on the verge of entering that the field will soon be as crowded as a cotillion, and all will be watching how well the Southerners do against the cocky, crowd-pleasing Governor from Alabama...