Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Southern states moved toward moderation on the race issue. Georgia replaced Lester Maddox with another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, a wealthy peanut farmer; South Carolinians chose Democratic Lieutenant Governor John West-a lawyer and, like Florida's Askew, a staunch Presbyterian-rather than Republican Representative Albert Watson, a racist with strong backing from Strom Thurmond and Spiro Agnew. Said one relieved voter: "South Carolina has moved from the Deep South to the upper South...
...Nevada, Democrat Mike O'Callaghan and Republican Ed Fike both took a hard line on crime and campus disturbances. It did not hurt O'Callaghan, a former schoolteacher, that the Republicans bungled a rebuttal to Columnist Jack Anderson's charges that Fike had taken part in shady land deals...
...only race where ecology turned into the clearest political issue was in Idaho. Cecil Andrus, 38, a Boise insurance executive, became the first Democrat elected Governor of the state since 1944. He defeated Incumbent Don Samuelson partly by opposing a Samuelson-backed mining development proposed for Idaho's scenic White Clouds region...
RONALD v. DELLUMS. They ate watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker...
LOUISE DAY HICKS. "You know where she stands" was a campaign slogan of Boston Democrat Louise Day Hicks. Indeed they know. All they need to do is to remember Mrs. Hicks' unsuccessful but formidable 1967 campaign for mayor, in which she clearly explained her views on neighborhood schools, her admiration for blue collar workers, her enthusiasm for law-and-order. This time Mrs. Hicks, 52, barely bothered to campaign. She limited her appearances to small gatherings in constituents' homes, eschewing debate with Republican Laurence Curtis, a former Congressman, and Independent Dove Daniel J. Hou-ton, a Viet...