Word: democratic
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...Party organizations find it difficult to organize. Old loyalties fail to bind. Such volatility breeds accidental candidates, and Procaccino is a creature of circumstance. Lindsay's failures and the ugly mood of the city, far more than anything in Procaccino's past record or present offerings, account for the Democrat's promising prospects...
...usual, the Senator who led the Defense Department's bill to its passage was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis. Stennis' sympathy for the military has never been questioned, but last week it was suggested that he had exacted a price for supporting the Nixon Administration's bill. The word came from Charles Overby, a Washington correspondent for the Jackson, Miss., Daily News, who until last month was an assistant to Stennis. Overby reported that the Senator had sent a letter to the Administration during the August congressional recess. Stennis reportedly wrote that with the upcoming fall desegregation...
...message to Nixon was clear. If Stennis stayed home, leadership for the military-appropriations bill would fall to Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington -an outspoken military critic. According to Overby, the Administration then ordered a delay of Mississippi school integration-and Stennis returned to shepherd the appropriations bill through. At week's end, neither Stennis nor the Administration had denied the report...
...support from at least two members of the influential American Bar Association. Lawrence Walsh, a former federal judge and deputy attorney general, and chairman of the A.B.A. Committee on the Federal Judiciary, told the Senate that he saw no conflict in Haynsworth's action. John Frank, a liberal Democrat who serves on the Advisory Committee on Civil Procedure of the Judiciary Conference, stated flatly that "there was no legal ground for disqualification...
...young lawyers and students assembled by Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader. The latest report may well have more effect than earlier ones, because it comes at a crucial time. President Nixon asked for it, obviously to help guide him in appointing an FTC chairman to succeed Paul Rand Dixon, a Democrat who has held the job since 1961. Dixon has offered to move down and serve until 1974 as one of the five commissioners. Nixon could name the new man as early as this week, when the seven-year term of Commissioner James Nicholson expires...