Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President in 1976, clear losers were those Republicans who had been cranking up for a run at their party's 1976 presidential nomination. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, a liberal Republican who had already spent about $180,000 campaigning for the top spot on the party's 1976 slate, said that his candidacy has been put "on the back burner and maybe into the deep freeze." Similarly, other leading Republicans who remained untainted while the Watergate scandal was under way have ironically been victimized by the end of the affair. California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York...
Nonetheless, the L.D.P. seems on the verge of winning again. Its surprising strength is due to two factors: 1) the failure of the main opposition groups-the Socialists, Communists and neo-Buddhist Komeito (Clean Government) Party-to get together on a common slate, mainly because of the Socialists' fear of being engulfed by the smaller but better-organized Communists, and 2) the ability of the L.D.P. to outspend its opponents on campaign rallies and posters. As the Japanese say, "Go to, yon raku" (Five wins, four loses)-meaning that a candidate who can spend 500 million yen ($1.78 million...
While Moscow is still sensitive about any nascent kult lichnosti, or personality cult, Brezhnev is nonetheless receiving a public relations buildup not seen since Khrushchev's time. In the recent one-slate Supreme Soviet elections, Brezhnev was referred to as the "first candidate" and as "head of the Politburo"-an interesting title since the Politburo supposedly has no head. If there is opposition to détente in Moscow, Brezhnev has effectively silenced it, at least publicly, and even those who are thought to be ideological hardliners, like Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, now publicly...
When the results came in, it turned out that the Faculty, in the lightest turnout ever in a council election, swept in most of the conservative slate, but the liberals seemed fairly pleased with the success of their last-ditch effort...
...members of the council are: George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, a member of the Maass slate but well-liked by liberals; William N. Lipscomb, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and a conservative; James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department and a conservative; Irvin DeVore, professor of Anthropology, a liberal upset victor over the Maass candidate Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology; Sydney J. Freedberg '36, professor of Fine Arts and a conservative; Elisabeth Allison, assistant professor of Economics and a member of neither ticket; and Linda Seidel, lecturer on Fine Arts, from the Maass slate. The liberal...