Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...universities and sober talk about difficult issues. Calling for "a new order," California Governor Jerry Brown last week set forth on his most serious pre-campaign trip to date. For eleven days, through Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, he zeroed in on college campuses and local television stations. Brown was clearly out for grass-roots support. "I don't expect to have the endorsement of Governors, Senators and mayors," he admitted...
...August, he has been able to raise only $250, 000. Brown forces had hoped that Kennedy would stay out of the race long enough for their man to get some "fence-sitting" money. Strapped for funds, Brown has had to delay formally declaring his candidacy. Otherwise he will lose local television exposure; as long as he is a noncandidate, stations can interview him without being forced to supply equal time to declared candidates...
Cuba does not attempt to intervene in countries where only large infusions of aid could produce perceptible change, or relatively well-off countries where local governments are strong enough to resist Communist incursions. Haiti, with a per capita income of only $230 a year, is an example of the former. Explains an exiled opposition leader: "Who would want to inherit Haiti's problems?" Castro's ambitions have also been frustrated on Dominica, where Hurricane David blew away not only thousands of homes, but the odds-on chance that Leftist David Rosie Douglas would unseat Prime Minister Oliver Seraphin...
John A. Pilomeno, secretary-treasurer of Local 300, said last week the 25 union pressmen and lithographers at the University Printing Office will ask Harvard to reduce their work week from 40 hours to the 35-hour work week shared by all other non-salaried Harvard employees...
Peter Felske wants his women's tennis team to be, "not just a local or state power, but a regional power," as Tiina Bougas, his top player says. When Felske returns from Amherst and the New England Championships this Sunday he will probably have his wish...