Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodes Scholarship appears prestigious enough to qualify as the basis for a draft deferment in a number of local boards. Kinasewich noted, however, that most draft boards are wary of giving special treatment to winners of either award...
...cooperation of the local AFL-CIO continues to be important to Munoz' boycott--farmworkers have been given an office and office supplies gratis in the AFL-CIO building downtown, and several locals make contributions fairly regularly. But misunderstandings are common. Several times this summer when local unions received no acknowledgment for their contributions, they wrote irate letters citing the farmworkers for lack of gratitude. But before this month, Munoz was often the only man in the office for long periods of time. And he could not acknowledge the contributions because he does not read or write...
Inside the rally room at the Somerset, all the familiar aspects of the New-Nixon machine went on display. Super-cool Nixon press aides quietly hustled local reporters out of the way in order to get the New York Times photographers and writers up near the front. "Papers with 10,000 to 25,000 circulation in the front row," said a steely-eyed young lady with a Press Aide badge. "You smaller papers in the back...
...NIXON ORGANIZATION had done its best to mend the busted local fences left in the wake of the Miami convention. A pre-speech press release lauded Massachusetts' great and progressive colleges, with their concerned and alienated students. Painfully aware that the Nixon-Agnew "law and order" appeal wasn't going over so well in Massachusetts, party bosses had imported four Negroes, complete with frisbie-sized "Nixon's The One" buttons, to sit in the audience. On the stage, Senator Edward Brooke and black Congressional candidate Allen Freeman added a liberal touch...
...speechmaking began, with more local-fence mending. Venerable Leverett Saltonstall waved to the cheering party workers and blessed Richard Nixon. Brooke said it was "a great day for Massachusetts." "We love you, Pat and Dick," he cooed. Then Volpe came on, telling about Nixon's visit to the Commonwealth in 1952. "We took a drive through East Boston then," Volpe said. Immediate cheers from the East Boston delegation...