Word: oregon
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...Badger State's 70,000-odd resident students. As in New Hampshire, few of the volunteers had any political experience, and one veteran said: "Some of their instruction will have to be given on the buses." Other cadres were at work in Nebraska, Indiana, South Dakota and Oregon. Chief among the organizers: Samuel Winfred Brown Jr., 24, a baby-faced Harvard Divinity graduate student who was board chairman of the National Student Association when its CIA link was exposed last year; blue-eyed Ann Hart, 20, a diminutive (5 ft., 102 Ibs.), self-described "dropout...
...have won easily-and his opponents have a head start in others. Partly for this reason and partly because of his desire to display "harmony" with Eugene McCarthy, Kennedy arrived at a curious strategy. He will support McCarthy in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, but run against him in Nebraska, Oregon, California and perhaps elsewhere. Prospects in the more significant races...
...OREGON, May 28. This is ideal underdog country. Oregonians tend to vote men, not party, and antiwar feeling runs high. However, Senator Wayne Morse warned Kennedy last week-before his announcement-that a threeway race would so divide the Administration's opponents that the President would "undoubtedly" collect the state's 35 delegate votes...
...supporters was finally formed. McCarthy, as elsewhere, enjoys support from many old Stevensonians and New Lefters, but Kennedy may attract some of them. Bobby's loudest backer is Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. Facing just one opponent, an absentee Johnson would doubtless be in serious trouble. But, as in Oregon, he stands a good chance of winning if both Kennedy and McCarthy remain in the contest...
...Kennedy has hardly been toppled by a rush of supporters. Wire-service surveys of state party chairmen found most of them still loyal to Johnson. Only three, in New York, Oregon and Tennessee, were willing to come out publicly for Kennedy. The initial reaction among congressional Democrats, even those sympathetic to Kennedy personally and on the major issues, was one of alarm rather than support. "He'll ruin the party!" was the reflex comment of several Capitol Hill Democrats. Most congressional Democrats and party officials in the states know that they face a tough campaign already and that...