Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following his unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination last year, South Dakota's Senator George McGovern won praise from fellow Democrats by endorsing and campaigning for Hubert Humphrey. Since then, however, kudos has turned to condemnation, gratitude to distrust. Powerful Southern Democrats have accused McGovern of trying to "ram proportional representation" down their throats. Northern machine bosses have accused him of widening, rather than closing, the splits within Democratic ranks. Even such liberal stalwarts as Edward Kennedy and Edmund Muskie are keeping him at arm's length...
Governor Lester Maddox and party officials of five Southern states boycotted last week's Atlanta hearings, leaving the group to talk only with dissidents who have used the hearing as a sort of political laundry to wash the party's dirty linen publicly...
...Racks. Federated's West Coast subsidiary, Bullock's-Magnin Co., has expanded considerably under its president, William Keeshan, 48. The debonair brother of Actor Bob Keeshan, who plays TV's Captain Kangaroo, Bill Keeshan spent 17 years learning the racks at Bullock's, a Southern California department-store chain; in 1963 he became head of Magnin's, a Bullock's subsidiary. He helped swing his firm's bitterly divided board in favor of Federated's takeover bid in 1964, and last year the parent company chose Keeshan to head the entire Bullock...
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Dennis Barr, 26, University of Southern California, heads his class with a 3.93 average (out of a possible 4) and sees business as a steppingstone to his ultimate goal: politics. The treasurer of the California Young Republicans, he worked in the Goldwater campaign. Barr, who also has a law degree, plans to spend the next ten years making enough money so that he can afford full-time politics. Still, he turned down a $25,000 offer from a consulting company and instead accepted $15,000 and commissions from a new firm that specializes in underwriting small and medium-sized issues...