Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearts-chiefly rising prices and taxes. By contrast, Labor's Kevin McNamara, also 31, seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott. 27, entered the race. One of the new breed of folksong-singing Britniks, whose counterparts are American college antiwar protesters, Gott campaigned only on one issue: "Stop the Labor government's support of the U.S. war in Viet Nam." His avowed aim was to draw...
...been insisting that his government's policies are only just beginning to have their effect on the economy, and it might be better to wait. Moreover, he has fared well enough on the razor-edge majority. For one thing, it has helped him to keep his left wing in line. As things stand now, the far leftists must go along with his moderate line or bring down the government. But with a wide majority for Labor of 50 to 100 seats, the left-wingers could revolt at will on every niggling issue, not only embarrassing Wilson but also putting...
...peak of 2,145,317 to 1,615,296, and the slippage among youth groups (off 60%) and in the factories has been even more drastic. Seeking to match the mood of the new masses, Longo suggested a nuova maggioranza (new majority) that would unite Communists, Socialists and left-wing Christian Democrats behind a platform demanding nothing more doctrinaire than better economic planning and fewer monopolies. Over objections from some hard-lining delegates, Longo hinted that his merged party might even be willing to change its name. And he lavished praise on the Vatican Ecumenical Council. "We have observed...
Scarcely two weeks ago he issued a "friendly warning" to Moro that a full-fledged government crisis might be in the making if the Premier did not pay more heed to the Fanfani wing of the Christian Democrats. That wing controls about 30 votes - the margin that shot down the government last week...
...Emmitsburg, Md., De Pauw last spring formed his tiny movement, which seeks to restore the all-Latin Mass in U.S. parishes. De Pauw argued that the council's adoption of the vernacular was "protestantizing" the Mass, and that the bishops had been duped into accepting it by left-wing theologians. Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw's superior, angrily ordered him to get out of the movement...