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...five state-wide weekly newspapers in five Deep South states. But that would have taken $75,000 to get going, and months of letter-writing, phone calls, and collections around Harvard produced only $35,000. They picked Alabama, where civil rights groups were planning massive voter registration campaigns to unseat Gov. George Wallace...
...Manhattan, some 200 civil rights leaders turned out for a defend-Powell meeting in the Harlem headquarters of A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. "We view with alarm and disbelief," said Randolph, "the attempt by a small and vindictive clique in the House to unseat the Representative from Harlem." Randolph assured the session that he had talked by phone with Powell, who was still vacationing in his Bahamian island retreat, and that Adam had sent "his greatest love" to all in attendance. Cried Livingston Wingate, onetime Powell aide and former director of HARYOUACT...
Though none of his challengers appeared strong enough to unseat Sato in the near future (Fujiyama led the opposition with 89 votes), the election clearly showed that the party is uneasy with Sato's leadership and his handling of the "black mist" Cabinet scandals that have tarnished the government's image. Sato told the delegates in his acceptance speech that he would "humbly accept the criticism" registered in the vote, then set about blowing away the black mist...
Republican Levin H. Campbell is trying for the second straight time to unseat state Senator Francis X. McCann, and there are compelling reasons for Cambridge voters to prefer the challenger. McCann has shown in 12 years on Beacon Hill that he is a Democratic rubber stamp, responsible for little original thinking and less legislation. His most active effort for any project came four years ago when he sponsored the bill which would have destroyed the Memorial Drive sycamores to build a set of underpasses. McCann's public silence since then has been noticeable...
...Douglas, who is in a rough contest with Charles Percy, felt that Stevenson's name would, indeed, help the ticket. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley agreed to the nomination in spite of Stevenson's endorsement, last spring, of Abner Mikva, who made a bold though unsuccessful bid to unseat one of Daley's men in the U.S. House of Representatives...