Word: paigned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers and licensing bureaus. It goes this far: last year G.M. and Polk, toward the end of an Oldsmobile cam paign, narrowed the field of unaccounted-for cars to three, and the searchers have not yet given up on them...
WHATEVER else may be said about George Wallace and his third-party presidential candidacy, the Alabamian has delivered on one cam paign promise before getting his first vote. "We're going to shake the eyeteeth of the liberals of both national parties," he pledged in Des Moines last week. By liberal, he means anything left of the far, far right, and he has already unsettled some political ivory in that broad area...
After he was elected mayor of New York City as a fusion candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...
...Viet Nam, the civilian candidates for a while threatened to refuse to cam paign until the government gave new guarantees for their safety and travel...
...provinces, the Viet Cong have been ordered to attack candidates, raid election stations, destroy ballot boxes and pressure peasants to boycott the polls. During last September's elections for the Constituent Assembly, the V.C. assassinated 37 candidates and cam paign workers. Since the presidential election is far more important, this time they are aiming higher...