Word: candied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several of the CCA-endorsed candi-dates enjoyed substantial bases of support of their own outside the CCA strongholds among academic and middle-class voters, Coates, for example, polled well among his fellow blacks, while Fantini-whose brother unsuccessfully ran for School Committee in 1967 as an independent-received a large portion of his votes from Italian East Cambridge, where most CCA candidates do poorly...
...existing laws governing campaign contributions and expenses are overhauled, "we shall simply never achieve reform." New York Democrat Robert Kennedy noted that while the money would theoretically be used only in presidential contests, the act was so loosely worded that funds could easily be diverted to boost favored local candi dates. With such a huge fund at his disposal, an incumbent President could wield vast control over local party machines. In Kennedy's case, the implications for 1972 were all too obvious...
...prisoner of war clad in purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched stiffly from the room...
Early this year, Nkrumah arranged to have 99.9% of the electorate approve a one-party constitution, and he dissolved Parliament elected before Ghana gained independence eight years ago. His Convention People's Party then nominated 198 illustrious candi dates (including U.N. Delegate Alex Quaison-Sackey and Margaret Martei, secretary of the Women's Council), and last week Nkrumah simply declared them all elected-for lack of opposition. Explained Spark, the party weekly: "This will be an object lesson to all Africa on how democracy is organized and made to work smoothly and effectively under a one-party state...
...Southern background proved his greatest handicap; no genuine Southerner had been elected to the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848.*It was the geographical barrier that Jack Kennedy was talking about when he said, some time before his own nomination: "I know all the other candi dates pretty well...