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Jackson actually has been campaigning for the presidency since 1971, when he played a spoiler role in the campaign for the 1972 Democratic nomination. Poorly organized and poorly prepared, he showed traces of demagoguery in his desperate bid for attention. He ignored a lifetime dedication to civil rights by proposing...
REUBIN ASKEW, 46. First elected Governor of Florida on a tax reform theme in 1970, the former state legislator delivered on his promises and won a smashing re-election last year to be come the state's first successive two-term Governor. The feat was particularly remarkable because he...
LLOYD BENTSEN, 53. Suave and sophisticated, the Texas Senator is a landed millionaire (estimated worth: $2 million) whose cool style contrasts with the earthy, flesh-pressing ways of Texas politicians like Lyndon Johnson. Bentsen resists facile classification. His conservative image was buttressed by his unseating of Liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough...
Power Base. Etzioni's main theoretical effort and "life's work" is The Active Society, a long and turgid treatise on how to use the levers of social change. In it, Etzioni explains how social progress requires consensus and a power base to protect and promote change. Thus...
In Detroit, for example, Claud Young, head of the Michigan chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wants the $200,000 earmarked by the school board for busing plans to be used instead to improve the schools, particularly in the area of vocational training. Young also opposes busing on the...