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...started slowly, his feet pounding on the plank floor. He kicked over one leg, his body rolled and cleared the bar, and he landed with a bounce in the foam rubber...
...idea has been adopted by Edward M. Kovachi Jr. '68, as a plank in his campaign for Leverett House Committee chairman. Kovachi said last night, and Hoffman agreed, that it would be quite feasible for the House Committee to direct the guide's compilation with help from other House members. "I know many people in the House who are really gung-ho for this idea," Kovachi added...
...Romney absolved Goldwater of personal blame for the 1964 convention's failure to adopt a strong civil rights plank-but at the same time damned him as an indifferent campaigner. He recalled how the G.O.P. standard-bearer had admitted to him that he, Goldwater, "read only a few sections of the platform and didn't know what amendments were being offered"-incredible as that seems. He also exonerated Goldwater of making a "deal" with Southern segregationists because "you were obviously leaving many vital things almost entirely to others...
...long, steady drench. Suburbs of Washington, D.C., got six or seven inches, and Baltimore got nearly four. But the news that morning befitted a soggy newspaper. The Democrats of Maryland had chosen a backlash candidate -- a sixtime loser -- run for governor in November. George P. Mahoney had only one plank in his platform -- rocksolid opposition to any open-housing law. And Mahoney had somehow eked out a 154-vote victory over liberal Carlton Sickles...
...state. He accuses the G.O.P. of being "boring, dull, unimaginative," demands "vitality, energy, creativity and spunk." He wanted-and got-a liberal platform that promises everything from more schools, parks and roads to an increased minimum wage and tougher enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. He also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority who supported Barry Goldwater in 1964 went along without a murmur of dissent...