Word: weakly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, a few weak spots have appeared. Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell...
Moderate Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and the relatively conservative state party organization have a strong grip; liberals are weak and unorganized...
...Frank Church is the state's liberal movement now, but that might be changing. Democrats are weak and socially inferior in this conservative state. McCarthy forces led by Robert Hart '68 built a grassroots organization which may serve as a base to build a liberal issue-oriented movement in the next four years. Liberal Republicans were badly defeated in 1966 and might be persuaded to vote for the opposition if progressive candidates backed by socially-acceptable forces can be found. Hart is the man to watch; McCarthy workers have joined Church's tough re-election battle this fall...
...Southern conservative wing of the party still controls the state. A coalition of the weak white liberal forces and new black leadership may emerge in the not too distant future...
...West, Coalition forces are following the well-established lead of California. The California Democratic Council (CDC), formed in the wake of the McCarthy-like Stevenson movement, rose over the past sixteen years to become the major grassroots political organization in a state with a long tradition of weak party organizations. Organized town by town into councils, the CDC has had an important influence on the party candidates and platform. In western states like Arizone, Washington, and Nebraska who have had similar traditions of relatively weak party machines, the CDC is being avidly copied...