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...staff has de-emphasized the youth image and abandoned the massive students canvassing technique. The front door window of Kennedy's Boston office has about 50 pictures, only two showing the Senator with young people. Over 35 have Kennedy talking with hard hats, the elderly and middle Americans. The slickest is a picture of Kennedy meeting a VEW group under the sign "We support our boys in Vietnam...
...galvanizing force behind most environmental legislation here." Pushed by the commissions, for example, Massachusetts recently enacted a law that permits a landowner to keep his property while selling the development rights to a town, city or charitable organization, thus permanently protecting the area as open space. It is the slickest-and cheapest -scheme for land-banking since former Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall encouraged the idea of buying the rights to a property's scenery...
Peaches & Sympathy. The lowest-keyed and slickest propagandists are the Czechs, who employ their innovative cinematic techniques for programs on the virtues of working in the peach-canning or fertilizer industries. The Czechs also have the liveliest commercials. One holiday-season spot shows the last-minute buying rush, and cuts to a popular actor looking dispiritedly into his empty wallet. Then a bleached, beehived blonde sympathizes: "Don't worry about money: buy a camera on the installment plan from Foto-Kino...
...Slickest Team. To those who had watched his carefully conducted campaign, Stokes's nomination came as no surprise. Ever since Stokes-then running as an independent-lost to Locher by 2,143 votes in the general election two years ago, he had been applying himself to the problem of carrying a city in which 62% of the registered electorate was white and the regular Democratic Party machinery was solidly behind Mayor Locher...
...answer was to put together one of the slickest campaign teams ever to operate in Cleveland. Negro and white volunteers flocked to his support, forming an active core of 3,000 workers in ten branch offices throughout the city. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King traveled to Cleveland to campaign for him. All told, Stokes's volunteers distributed 60,000 bumper stickers (to Locher's 14,000), passed out another 60,000 door knob notices...