Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's cool attitude toward politics this fall, however, and Rockefeller's near disappearance from the national scene, have left the liberals with a vacuum of leadership--which men like Allard Lowenstein are now trying to step into...
...sports-minded, Republican Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 38, onetime pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, won in North Carolina over Democrat Smith Bagley. Also certain to be heard from in the new House is Long Island's ultraliberal Democrat Allard K. Lowenstein, 39, a leader in the effort to land the Democratic presidential nomination for McCarthy...
Incredibly, in a district registered more than three to two Republican, Lowenstein won by 4400 votes. Nobody knew that Tuesday night--the official returns didn't come in. But when, at 12:45 a.m., Eugene Nickerson, Nassau Country Executive, said, "I don't have the figures, but it's my understanding that we've won," the 2000 Lowenstein supporters in the room broke into hysterical, confetti-throwing cheers...
...victory is not victory for an individual," Lowenstein told them when he appeared. "It is a victory for a point of view. This only means that we've been given the opportunity to do things, not that we've done them...
...Tuesday night, for Allard K. Lowenstein, the system had worked pretty well. Kids and adults were standing on chairs and cheering. Someone was crying. You couldn't even get Cokes at the bar without showing proof, but nobody cared. Drinks weren't important. In a horrible election year, one good thing had happened. Everyone crowded around Lowenstein, shaking his hand, hugging him. The band played "The Impossible Dream...