Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOVERNOR Robert Docking of Kansas, who had supported Johnson, has declared his neutrality, but most observers give his delegation to Kennedy. Iowa which had been solid for the President under Gov. Harold Hughes, is rated an even split among Kennedy, McCarthy, and Humphrey...
Warning that the civil rights movement was "very, very close" to a split, he exhorted believers in nonviolence to become "more forthright, more aggressive, more militant." Late last year he added: "We have learned from hard and bitter experience that our Government does not move to correct a problem involving race until it is confronted directly and dramatically." At the end, he was organizing the massive march of the poor on Washington-and if Congress proved recalcitrant, he threatened to obstruct the national political conventions...
...asked the police to step back because we can work this out among ourselves. I thought my own people would give me a little respect." With that the deck was cleared and Brown finished the show. At the end of his song the lights went out and he split. Fast...
...other candidates for the P.D.P. nomination immediately surfaced: Senate Majority Leader Luis Negrón López, 58, and Santiago Polanco Abreu, 47, the island's commissioner in Washington. Waiting to profit from the P.D.P.'s current split is Industrialist Luis Ferré, head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party...
That crisis could well come when Harold Wilson faces his party's embittered rank and file at next October's party congress. Labor is badly split internally over Wilson's economic measures and high-handed way of running things. Former Foreign Secretary George Brown, who has stubbornly refused to quit his post as the party's deputy leader, is out to cause Wilson trouble; last week the party had to expel Desmond Donnelly, a maverick who leans to the right, for refusing to knuckle under to party discipline. If Wilson fails to revive Britain...