Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pacifica stations often find themselves set upon from all quarters. They get ultraconservative barbs for broadcasting taped speeches by Malcolm X and the views of Radicals Tom Hayden and Jerry Rubin. Broadcasts by Conservative William Buckley and right-wing "Objectivist" Ayn Rand have stirred anguished complaints from offended liberals...
...election night, and the old parties are awaiting the government's victory. In the composing room of the right-wing newspaper Il Tempo, a makeup man puts the banner line into the form: GOVERNMENT WINS WITH LARGE MAJORITY. A state television news director instructs his assistant: "Feed in the usual commentary-that one we used in 1969 will do fine." Forecasters have predicted a government victory, because again, as in previous elections, voters are unable to remember candidates' names. At Communist Party headquarters on Via delle Botteghe Oscure (Street of the Dark Shops), Party Boss Luigi Longo...
Speaking in front of large signs that read, "Don't close down" and "No Columbia here," MacDonnell said the committee included members from the executive board of the Young Democrats and other organizations not specifically on the right wing...
...first caught the public eye when his freewheeling tactics as a defense attorney in the 1949 trial of eleven Communists earned him a four-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He continued to be active in civil libertarian causes, and was called an "enemy collaborator" by right-wing pamphleteers when he ran for his judgeship in 1966. All through his judicial career, though, he has enjoyed great popularity among Detroit's Negroes-and even among a few of the city's whites...
...Frank Freidel, Harvard University, author of a multi-volume biography of F.D.R.: "He elected to retain Government responsibility for the welfare of the people. This was his most significant accomplishment. It is what made it possible for Kennedy and Johnson to move forward. If one of the right-wing group had been elected, Kennedy and Johnson would have had to spend a lot of time recouping. With the Eisenhower years as a plateau and a period of consolidation, it was possible to move forward in the Kennedy-Johnson years...