Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the East came sounds of persistent pounding at Nixon's delegate support. Some of his staffers admitted that their man had lost about 50 delegate votes in the past few weeks. They still believe, however, that he will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
...game, is the old pro converted to the new politics. Once the literal Big Daddy of California's Democratic machine, Unruh has shed 90 lbs. since he fell in love with dissent; he now chairs the 172-member delegation that won a three-cornered primary contest in support of Robert Kennedy against groups committed to McCarthy and to Humphrey. Unruh is uncommitted and angry. Through cigar smoke: "The gap between political leadership and the people is widening at the very time it ought to be narrowing . . . We're not going to the convention simply to validate decisions someone...
...newly organized critics, who call themselves, with Jacobin earnestness, "the Committee for the City," are a non-partisan coalition of activists from Los Angeles' professional, academic and artistic worlds. They have the strong and enthusiastic support of Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler, who allows that "it would be nice to have someone in office who would do good things for the city." At their first general meeting this week, the nearly 200 members will consider issues and candidates for the spring battle with Yorty. A leading contender is Frank Mankiewicz, Robert Kennedy's press secretary, who used...
Sakharov's prime example of progress in the socialist system, embarrassingly enough for the Kremlin, is Czechoslovakia. The universal human need for intellectual freedom, he says, "has been understood in particular by the Czechoslovaks, and there can be no doubt that we should support their bold initiative, which is so valuable for the future of socialism and all mankind...
...That support should be political and in the early stages include increased economic...