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AFTER a decade of working with the Organization in the legislature, Spong decided to challenge it in a state-wide contest. Projecting the image of an attractive young problem-solver, he entered the Democratic primary in July, 1966, in an effort to wrest the nomination away from veteran Sen. A. Willis Robertson. Although he was helped by abolition of the poll tax and the subsequent growth in the Negro electorate, Spong's most active support came from a whole generation of young voters who could not identify with the old men in the Organization. Robertson conducted the best-financed...

Author: By Jack D. Burke jr., | Title: William B. Spong Jr. | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...short the people of the cities can attempt to wrest the money now being spent in Vietnam for themselves only by wielding their political muscle...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The War Economy | 2/24/1968 | See Source »

...untrammeled flow of trade. It would be a historic error if a nation as powerful as the U.S. allowed a crisis elsewhere, no matter how troublesome, to distract it from its determination to retain the mastery of the sea that Admiral Gorshkov is so anxious to wrest from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Power Play on the Oceans | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...moving to control our African-American communities, as you are moving to wrest control of your countries, of the entire Latin continent, from the hands of foreign imperialist powers...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: HABANA 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...moving to control our African-American communnities, as you are moving to wrest control of your countries, of the entire Latin continent, from the hands of foreign imperialist powers."--Stokely Carmichael in Havana...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: HABANA 1967 | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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