Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Milton Shapp," Pennsylvania's Democratic Chief David Lawrence was once heard to grumble, "is that he wants to start at the top." What Milton wants, Democratic panjandrums learned to their dismay last week, Milton gets. With the money, smooth organization and stubborn resolve to achieve his aim, Democrat Shapp shellacked his party's machine-backed gubernatorial nominee by al most 50,000 votes...
Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...
Harvard won two other final contests, bringing its record for the afternoon to four wins in six races. The junior varsity heavies upset first-seeded Yale by a little more than a length, and the first freshman lightweight shell took a smooth and easy victory from Penn by the same margin...
...freshman heavyweight race, Harvard bowed to the rower of Pennsylvania. Off the start at 43, the Crimson settled to a smooth 34 and led the race until its closing moments...