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Considering this natural resistance, constitutional reform is gathering surprisingly broad support both on Beacon Hill and among the electorate. But while politicians praise revision on the stump, its proponents disagree strongly how to accomplish it: through the General Court or a Constitutional Convention...
...whom he was teaching Portuguese literature, won a seat on São Paulo's city council. He has come out ahead in every election since-state deputy, mayor of São Paulo city (the Chicago of Brazil), governor of São Paulo state. On the stump, he emphasized the fact that he worked around the clock by letting his beard go three days without a shave. Once in office, he built a reputation for honesty and efficiency. "Liberty," as he put it, "is not a permanent concession but a daily battle...
...stump Nixon was not yet the punching campaigner of yesteryear. But he was beginning to take off his gloves...
...campaign surged into high gear, Kennedy left a jet stream of issues behind him (see box), along with the jagged seismograph of his public image. Getting into the swing of it, he proved that he can be as tough, skillful and attractive as any other candidate currently on the stump-and worthy of Dick Nixon's wariest respect...
Concerned by widespread corruption in the government bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls...