Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of prescient liberals including Michael Walzer, professor of Government, and Martin Peretz, then-lecturer on Social Studies, took out newspaper ads supporting incumbent Republican Governor Francis Sargent against his ADA-endorsed Democratic opponent, Michael Dukakis. The ads basically pointed out that Sargent was a good liberal who supported social welfare programs for the poor, and that a bird in the hand, etc... Dukakis won anyway, 65 per cent to 35 per cent. And the worst nightmares of the liberals have come true...
...both Edward Kings win their respective primaries for governor, there inevitably will be confusion on election day over who is who. Many Democratics are already confused, if not frustrated, over Edward J. King's more conservative, seemingly Republican politics...
...conservative's conservative, Avi Nelson, has come from the world of radio talk shows to mount what could be a serious challenge to Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) for the Republican nomination...
...reports TIME Economic Correspondent George Taber, seems a strangely radical idea to come from Wallich, a Republican professor of economics whose pin-striped blue suits and slow, heavily technical speech make him seem the embodiment of fiscal traditionalism. But as a child in Berlin he lived through the insane German inflation of 1923-24. Once his mother gave him 105 billion marks to buy a ticket to a swimming pool that had cost 15 pfennig to enter not long before. But she miscalculated; by the time Wallich got to the pool, the price had risen to 150 billion marks...
...Republican race, Sen. Edward Brooke toured the state shaking hands and making speeches. Republican challenger Avi Nelson worked the traditional handshaking circuit at shopping centers and subway stops for the first time in his campaign...