Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are likely to desert the party completely this year, just as Yorty, their insurrectionlist leader, is apt to desert the party in 1968 to run in the Republican primary against liberal Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel...
Only Thomas Kuchel, the Senate's Minority Whip, and Christopher have remained aloof. Kuchel backed Christopher in the primary and is quoted as saying, "I know where Christopher stands, which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan...
Contrary to most predictions, the 1966 primary elections were little affected by the obvious emotional issues of the hour. Huff and puff as they might, no candidates were able to whip up any meaningful support for antiwar protests. Nor was there any evidence of reaction against the Johnson Administration's Great Society legislation. There were no measurable swings toward either liberal or conservative sentiment; there was not even any contest between Kennedy Democrats and Humphrey loyalists. Nor did the new black-power militancy of the American Negro influence the voting to any great extent...
...version has it that Mao during his recent six-month absence from public view was being urged by President Lui Shao-chi to refrain from an other Leap Forward. Mao, so the story goes, enlisted his own wife to whip up support for him. She, in turn, recruited Lin Piao to Mao's cause...
...looked like it might stay there. Early in the sixth race, he seemed hopelessly behind McNamara. But a wind shift caught McNamara unawares and then, rounding the first mark, the Bostonian and his two-man crew somehow committed the neophyte's gaffe of letting their spinnaker whip into an hourglass snarl. They took 1 min. 30 sec. to unfoul it, and limped in seventh to Cox's sixth. That put Cox only H points behind, 39|-381, and he poured it on in the seventh race-outmaneuvering his shaken opponent, then covering...