Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic campaign enters its final weeks, Humphrey has a superabundance of delegate votes but a surprising lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...Ohio (26). For Nixon: Indiana (13), Kansas (7), Missouri (12), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (4) and South Dakota (4). Up in the air: Iowa (9), which is breaking out of its former conservative mold; and Wisconsin (12), which would be Nixon country if Neighbor Humphrey were not so popular there...
...Objections. Papadopoulos favors the present draft. He wants to solve the problem of what to do with King Constantine by bringing him back from exile in Rome as a purely ceremonial monarch. He also feels that Greece is ready to return to constitutional rule, and that he has become popular enough among the Greek people to win a nationwide election that would legalize his government. The hard-liners believe that the revolution has not yet accomplished its task, bitterly oppose retaining any vestige of royalty. Papadopoulos may prevail upon them to let him bring out the proposed constitution, which...
...hoped, with victory for the ugh plugs, which fall under the heading of the Dreadful Ds: drugs, dentifrices, deodorants, detergents and dandruff removers. They all deal in intensively competitive products, and their problem is the kind of problems they treat. Stuffed sinuses, after all, are not exactly a popular subject, but that does not stop the admen from hawking some nasal spray as if it were the greatest breakthrough since the Salk vaccine...
...debut in Parliament turned out to be no less remarkable; he lost his entire first Cabinet in a fight over a constitutional amendment proposing direct popular election of the President-the first and only time a Fifth Republic government has lost a confidence vote...