Word: paigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starred vending-machine venture and himself under indictment for income tax evasion. Black told of sitting in a car with Kerr in Poteau, Okla., in late 1962: "Senator Kerr was concerned because he said he had advanced Mr. Baker $50,000 out of what he called 'cam- paign contributions,' and he would have to replenish it out of his own pocket if he couldn't pay." Baker had testified earlier that Kerr canceled the debt just before he died...
...G.O.P.'s most talked about prospects for national office. Then, last July, his constituents learned that Hatfield had re fused for the second year running to support a motion endorsing the Administration's Viet Nam policy at the annual Governors' Conference. As the cam paign began, it was clear that he was the underdog in a campaign that no one had previously thought he could lose...
Upthink all the way was the intended theme as the Democratic National Committee and members of the Cam paign Conference for Democratic Women converged on Washington last week for their pre-election rah-rah session. Unsurpassed prosperity and the unmatched legislative record of the 89th Congress seemed the ideal sword and buckler for the combat ahead. "Go forth," enjoined Hubert Humphrey, "with almost a crusading zeal to talk about not only what we've done, but how we've done...
...Lift from Science. All the attacks and polls also nudged the hitherto disdainful De Gaulle into more campaigning. At midweek he reversed an earlier decision to fill all but eight minutes of his allotted two hours of television cam paign time with classical music and documentary films. This week le grand Charles himself will take to the tube twice. Even the scientists gave his belated campaign an extra lift last week as the first French satellite-a 92-lb. candy-striped "bonbon called A-l-soared into victorious if not quite perfect orbit from the Algerian Sahara...
...tireless party worker, she has ad dressed envelopes and rung doorbells just like anyone else. In 1954, while managing a losing congressional cam paign for Anthony B. Akers in New York's 17th Congressional District, she slipped away from a lavish reception for Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, changed to street clothes in her Rolls-Royce while riding to Democratic headquarters on election night. In 1956 she headed the Volunteers for Stevenson committee in New York; in 1958 she ran another losing campaign for Akers; in 1960 she was deputy chairman of the Citizens Committee for Kennedy...