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...explains that he does not want to "peak too fast," but his campaign plainly suffers from haphazard organization. Moreover, he has to contend with the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who became the Liberal Party's gubernatorial choice after losing the Democratic nomination, and is sure to siphon off votes that would otherwise have gone to O'Connor. To compound O'Connor's woes, Rockefeller's progressive record, notably an increase in the state minimum wage to $1.50, has cost the Democrats some of their customary labor support. The 250,000-member Building...
...Memphis office, Matthews keeps detailed files on property in every sizable U.S. city, looks with an especially sharp eye for anything "adjacent to the largest hotel in town." With few public rooms, small staff and relatively low capital investment, Downtowners can substantially undercut hotel room prices, thus siphon off an instant clientele. So far, the Downtowners have been keeping things hot for hotels mainly in smaller cities. As Vice President Ronald Kirkpatrick, 33, sees it, that is only the beginning. "We have been in training," he says. "Now we're big enough to take on New York and Chicago...
...been hoped-or feared. Church officials had predicted 700,000 pilgrims, while Communist authorities, concerned that the demonstrations might fan the coals of antigovernment resentment, had made elaborate plans to tamp down a turnout that they believed could top a million. Two major football games were scheduled to siphon off Poles who might otherwise make the pilgrimage. And more than 300,000 workers in the nearby city of Katowice turned out-on government orders-to attend a patriotic rally, while for most of the rest of Poland, May 3 was officially a regular school and working...
...Republican I enjoyed your Essay [Oct. 22]. Party unity has always been the greatest pitfall of the Republican Party. The socialist and Communist parties siphon off the crackpots of the left wing, leaving the Democratic Party nearer the center. On the right, there is no haven for extremists. When the Republican Party seeks to accommodate all, it succeeds only in pulling itself away from the political center. We can never have a valid two-party system until Republicans realize that unity in the pursuit of victory is no virtue...
...seats." Two of the five threatened office-holders are CCA-endorsed Thomas Coates, a Negro, and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, the professor from M.I.T. Mahoney ran ninth last time, and, on the face of it, might be considered the most vulnerable. But remember one important feature of PR: candidates siphon their votes mainly, from relatively restricted areas or groups. The plain truth is that neither Mahoney or Coates draw their major support from the same elements that Maher must tap. But that doesn't mean they're completely out of trouble...