Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This kind of low key campaigning worked for Hicks two years ago when she was elected to her first term but politics in the 9th changed considerably this year in the wake of the drastic redistricting. The gerrymandering removed some of Hicks's favorite tea spots and substituted more liberal suburban voters who drink mostly cockrails...
...Irish Volunteers," an electric rock band that seemed to specialies in American folk tunes with an Irish' brogue, set the cadence for the lively victory celebration that appeared destined to begin since the early evening. Louise Day Hicks and the old 9th District politics were left behind in the wake...
...perhaps not quite good enough to win. Farenthold squeezed more votes out of the Texas electorate last spring than any liberal politician in the state's history--more votes than any other liberal will be able to do this year. Much of Farenthold's appeal came in the wake of her exploits with the Dirty Thirty. To many, she was seen more as a reform candidate than as one of those "wild-eyed welfare maniacs from out of state...
Messing's case involves the issue of disciplining Faculty, administrators, and members of the Corporation. The reasons for last May's demonstration, coming in the wake of renewed bombing of Hanoi and the mining of Haiphong Harbor, were the Government Department's "open-chair" policy toward Henry A. Kissinger '50 and its complicity in the Indochina war. But how is a student to seek redress of these grievances? The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities states that "No violation of the rights of members of the University, nor any failure to meet responsibilities, should be interpreted as justifying any violation...
Every administration has had scandals--the recent cases of Bobby Baker, Walter Jenkins, and Billy Sol Estes come to mind. It is safe to predict that a McGovern Administration would have a few embarrassments in its wake as well. Not that scandals are morally defendable, but experience suggests that they are politically inevitable. Old-fashioned graft at least distributes its burdens more equitably and less destructively than certain majoritarian programs which are quite legal and above-board...