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Even more distressing for Republicans are the West Coast findings. In a three-man race in California, Oregon and Washington, Edmund Muskie is favored over Nixon by 59% to 33% of the vote, with 8% going to George Wallace (see TIME Election Survey, page 24). Forty-two percent of those sampled in these states would vote against Nixon regardless of his opponent. In the Middle Atlantic and New England states, 38% of the voters are resolutely anti-Nixon. Across the nation, 65% of the nonwhite vote would go to the President's opponent...
...question did not take on major proportions again until World War II. Sixteen months after V-J day, President Truman responded to public pressure and established a three-man Amnesty Board to determine whether those who had been convicted of refusing to fight should be further punished. The board was less than lenient, partially because World War II had wide popular support. Of the more than 15,000 cases considered, only about 1,500 men were pardoned, most of them on religious grounds. "Intellectual, political or sociological convictions" against the war were not accepted as excuses, and clemency...
...decided to challenge the law. Circuit Court Judge Irving R. Kaufman endorsed that challenge. "The law permitted punishment as if they were criminals," said Kaufman. "But they are punishing a condition, not a crime. How are you going to define moral depravity?" Setting aside the girls' convictions, the three-man federal court denounced the Wayward Minor statute as "unconstitutionally vague...
...candidates and finally agreed to the obscure Dag Hammarskjold only because they mistakenly thought he was a colorless bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when they got the kind of neutral they wanted: U Thant...
...Mayor and his brother, U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes, had withdrawn from the county Democratic Party because of the absence of blacks at the policy-making level. Pinkney chose to run as an Independent. The feeling prevailed that he would stand a much better chance in a three-man race where the white vote would be split...