Word: winning
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...political science department at Berkeley, sees 1968 as a possible prelude to a general political realignment, with the Republicans having more at stake in the long run than the Democrats. Writing in the current issue of Transaction, Wildavsky reasons that if a "real Republican like Nixon cannot win under present favorable circumstances, there would not appear to be much hope for the Republican Party as it is now constituted." The G.O.P.'s far right might be driven to merge with the Wallace faction. Other Republicans would then have little choice but to coalesce with middleroad Democrats. The extreme Democratic...
Wildavsky's thesis is that the best chance of maintaining a stable two-party system is for Nixon to win. Out of power, the Democratic dissidents could work to capture control of the party from a discredited leadership...
Disaster Area. For the Democrats, it has become obvious that, win or lose, they are left with the problem of marking out new constituencies. After nearly 40 years, the coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt is in the final throes of disintegration, a process that was slowed down but not halted by Lyndon Johnson's 1964 victory...
...Cliffies piled up 65 points to capture the victory over sailors from M.I.T., B.U., Simmons. Mount Holyoke, and Regis. M.I.T. also compiled 65 points, but Radcliffe had defeated M.I.T. in seven of the 12 races and was a warded the win...
Although Agnew does not refer to "Marxists" on campus anymore, he still assures crowds that a Nixon administration will put down by force even the mildest forms of civil disobedience. Predictably, the head of the GOP's ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...