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...Tenth District coordinator and on the Massachusetts steering committee for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He is also a businessman who unionized his own plant (with the Textile Workers Union of America) where there has never been a strike. He also raised funds for John Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson...
Peace Action will also coordinate volunteers and transportation at Harvard for such out-of-state candidates as Joseph Duffey running for the Senate in Connecticut, former governor Phillip Hoff running for the Senate in Vermont, and Adlai E. Stevenson III 52 running for Senator in Illinois...
...waded into the student crowd for several minutes of ebullient handshaking. He later said that he regretted not being able to visit other, more militant campuses. Turning quickly to more conventional politics, he flew to Chicago to lend his prestige to Senator Ralph Smith's campaign against Adlai Stevenson III. While there, the President took the opportunity to meet with eight leaders of Chicago's large and politically powerful Polish community and at one point to press the flesh with a group of hardhat construction workers in the Loop...
...been at least temporarily defused as a pervasive issue. Of 35 Democrats seeking Senate seats this year, at least a dozen, including Humphrey, Jackson, Muskie, Kennedy, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Rhode Island's John Pastore, are conceded to be certain winners. In Illinois and California, Democrats Adlai Stevenson III and John Tunney are exploiting their famous names and their foes' drab records; they may well pick up Republican-held seats. In New York and Vermont, Democrats Richard Ottinger and Philip Hoff are given good chances to offset party losses elsewhere by ousting Incumbents Charles Goodell and Winston...
...techniques of spot-making vary with the needs of the campaign. This year, viewers in Illinois will hear Republican Senator Ralph Tyler Smith ask wife-beating questions in his spots, devised by James & Thomas, Inc., a Chicago ad agency, for his campaign against Adlai Stevenson III. "Why doesn't Adlai Stevenson speak out against busing? . . . What has Adlai got against the FBI?" the ads ask. In New York, the screens show Nelson Rockefeller in at least half his spots, something they did only rarely when his popularity was at a lower level four years...