Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign where "image' counts heavily, both men have shown themselves to be soporific. Brown has never been much of a campaigner; he has an undistinguished platform manner, an unremarkable face, and a voice that shrills when he is put on the spot...
...also decide the outcome of several House races, where independent peace candidates might take votes from hard-pressed Democratic freshmen such as Michigan's Weston Vivian and New York's Lester Wolff. So far, however, no candidate of either party who ran on an antiwar platform has won. Last week, in a bitter rerun of a contested Democratic primary in a predominantly Jewish and Italian-American district in Manhattan, five-term Congressman Leonard Farbstein, who supports the Administration's Viet Nam policy, won renomination by a bigger margin than in June. In most races, candidates prefer...
...against the board of trustees when they tried to change the curriculum, graduated in 1932 with a degree in economics and sociology, and-"because I was a child of the Depression, a Democrat by upbringing and very emotionally involved"-he cast his first vote for Franklin Roosevelt. "Remember his platform?" asks Reagan. "It was all for states' rights, and it also promised to reduce the size of the Federal Government and cut the budget by 25%. Well, I'm still in favor of that...
...largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising Sun" party are trying to fuse worker and peasant sentiment in support of his American-backed land-reform and free-unionism platform. And South Viet Nam's ethnic minorities-Montagnards, Chinese, Cambodians-were attempting to forge an 18-seat coalition...
First draft of the manifesto was purposely vague, endorsing such policies as "social control of the banks"-a phrase that might or might not mean nationalization. At any rate, the platform contained enough of the doctrinaire socialism of Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, to please the leftists without alienating the free-enterprisers. In the interest of unity, even fiery old Krishna Menon, leader of the left wing, who normally might be expected to be quarrelsome, went along with the leadership, cooed happily over the document: "This is a socialist manifesto...