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...colonel who is now a franchise partner in five Holiday Inns. When the two last competed for a Senate nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert Taft, but this year the Democratic nomination is more valuable. The winner of the Republican primary, Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, is a far weaker candidate than Taft...
...about a week, beginning when students set up roadblocks during a strike for admissions of more black students and an end to on-campus ROTC. Ohio governor James J. Rhodes was hard-pressed in his campaign for the Republican nomination to be senator. He was running against a Taft, his administration had run into some financial scandal, and he was pushing "law and order" issues hard, brandishing the National Guard at campus demonstrations like a new, improved version of a baton belonging to the OSU marching band. With the university president out of town, he sent the Guard to Kent...
...purporting to show that only a small percentage of the deserters were motivated by idealistic objections to the Viet Nam War. Most shirked their duty, he claimed, for private, selfish reasons. He took issue with conditional amnesty as embodied, for example, in a bill proposed by Republican Senator Robert Taft that would grant amnesty to draft evaders who agree to serve two years in either the armed forces or a civilian service like VISTA. "Such a practice would equate military service with penal servitude," said Benade, "and this is contrary to the history and tradition of our country, which holds...
...Gradison's faltering campaign. Mahe coached the candidate on how to make the most of white suburban parents' fears about school busing. One Gradison TV spot described it as "a cruel experiment with our children." Mahe staged campaign appearances for Gradison by Vice President Ford, Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, James Buckley of New York and Charles Percy of Illinois and former Attorney General Elliot Richardson. To match the Republican effort, Luken brought in Maine Senator Edmund Muskie, Ohio Governor John Gilligan and Veteran Political Consultant Mark Shields. His advice to Luken was to focus the campaign...
...week, which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also announced a nationwide freeze on residential rents. Labor's legislative priorities include old-age-pension increases, land-speculation curbs and repeal of the Tories' Industrial Relations Act, a law modeled on the Taft-Hartley Act that has antagonized both labor and management. All should prove relatively uncontroversial if not uniformly popular measures...