Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reagan, though popularly considered to be this year's Mr. Conservative, withdraws his opposition to California's open-housing law, promotes a legislative package aimed at economic salvation of the ghettos. Nixon, still regarded by many as the partisan epitomized, reaches out with new ideas for the support of independents and Democrats, and talks up the development of black capitalism. Humphrey, too, advocates expanded opportunities for Negro ownership of inner-city businesses...
...McCarthy, as the first antiwar candidate in the race, was much better known there than in Indiana and Nebraska, where recognition was a major problem. Oregon is also an overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd...
Reagan retreated behind his noncandidate's cloak, denied any connection with the $300,000 television drive waged on his behalf in Oregon. Rockefeller pooh-poohed Oregon's importance while seeking delegate support in Denver, Albuquerque, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. With increasing edginess, New York's Governor questioned both Nixon's ability to win in the general election and to be a successful President even...
Having beaten Faircloth by only 3,000 votes, Collins will be forced to forsake some of his courtly brand of gentle persuasion in the race against Republican Congressman Ed Gurney, who will inherit much of Faircloth's conservative Democratic support. ¶For the first time in Kentucky's history, voters nominated a woman for the U.S. Senate. By nearly 35,000 votes, Katherine Peden, 42, a former state commerce commissioner and the only woman member of the President's riots commission, defeated her closest opponent in a field of twelve candidates to win the Democratic nomination...
...narrow horizons shape the French workers' attitudes toward politics. Most workers are largely apolitical, openly cynical, and mistrustful of all shades of politicians and parties. The feeling is not entirely unjustified, since in the past France's established parties have indeed done little for the worker. Such support as the Communist party enjoys stems from the fact that the workers feel that the Communist labor unions have fought hardest for their economic gains. Furthermore, unlike bourgeois Frenchmen, the worker feels little or no fear about ultimate Communist intentions. "Even if they were to get the control," said...