Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, Adlai Stevenson III, a bona fide Democrat who supports his party's platform--unlike the LaRoucheites--has chosen to withdraw from the ballot and attempt to run as a third-party candidate rather than carry these usurpers into office with him. The election laws are currently working against him in the same way that they confounded Berman...
...Protestant cells formed over the past year to challenge the agreement. The Republic's decision two weeks ago to continue its ban on divorce only confirmed a Protestant sense of distance from their neighbors to the south. "There is nothing that attracts me toward the Irish Republic," complains Billy Stevenson, chairman of the Castlereagh Ulster Club in east Belfast. "The present situation under the Anglo-Irish agreement is like living with in-laws who don't want...
...although the Crimson was able to outwit lacrosse's version of basketball's "four corners"--netting three final period goals--it wasn't able to catch the Bruins (6-4 overall, 2-0 Ivy), who won, 14-10, in front of 250 spectators at Stevenson Field yesterday...
Saddled with Democratic running mates he described as "candidates who espouse hate-filled folly," Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Adlai Stevenson III last week took the honorable way out. He announced that he would withdraw from the Democratic ticket, and hopes to run as an independent or third-party candidate. The move was prompted by the fact that two supporters of Ultrarightist Lyndon LaRouche won the Democratic nominations for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of state. Stevenson's abdication means that Illinois Democrats will probably run this fall with a vacancy at the top of their ticket. The Democrats' disarray can only help...
...bizarre outcome was skewed, in part, by the Chicago races, where Mayor Harold Washington campaigned against the regular Democratic ticket (see box). In the statewide contests, regular Democrats were too cocky; Stevenson did not bother to campaign for his running mates, assuming, like everyone else, that they would be ushered in on his coattails...