Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commentator files suit against his critics for libel and then tries to call off the trial, how do the accused clear their names? Such is the puzzle facing Margot Power, 50, a surgeon's wife, a sometime G.O.P. precinct captain and president of the Grand Traverse (Mich.) League of Women Voters...
MUSICALS: Barbra Streisand, Carol Channing and Zero Mostel are the winners from the Broadway precinct in their cast recordings of Funny Girl (Capitol), Hello, Dolly! and Fiddler on the Roof (both RCA Victor...
...Until every qualified person," continued Johnson, "regardless of the house where he worships or the state where he resides or the way he spells his name or the color of his skin-until he has the right unquestioned and unrestrained to go in and cast his ballot in every precinct in this country, I am not going to be satisfied...
...November elections. A minority faction grabbed control of the minority party. A candidate outside the you-know-what of American politics antagonized millions of independent and Republican voters. The only solution is for the Republican Party to turn back toward the center, starting right down at the precinct level, to unify the party around a man like Ike Eisenhower or Dick Nixon, to present constructive alternatives to Democratic proposals, to get young energetic candidates...
W.O.W. Who is Dan Evans? He's a Republican to keep an eye on. A Seattle-born structural and civil engineer, he began dabbling in precinct politics in 1948, and in 1956 agreed to run for the legislature from a safe district. By 1961 he was the Republican floor leader and he was considered to be one of the most effective parliamentarians in the house...