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Reformers in the Democratic Party then rewrote their rules and turned the selection process over to the voters, who were asked to stage a primary or caucus in each state. Primaries were not new. For years they had been essentially "beauty contests" that tested a candidate's appeal to...
The automakers reacted cautiously to the White House package. Detroit numbers men, no doubt using their Japanese-made calculators, found some election-year hyperbole in the $1 billion price tag. Said General Motors President Elliott M. Estes: "We can't quite add all that up yet." Most Detroit officials...
Yet sorties by young and old into the streets with brooms and garbage bags are only part of Keep America Beautiful. "A one-day cleanup doesn't accomplish anything," explained Sidney H. Estes, assistant superintendent for instruction for the Atlanta public schools and chairman of the Atlanta Clean City...
New Hampshire began giant-killing in 1932, when New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 snatched all eight Democratic delegates from front-runner Alfred E. Smith. Twenty years later, Senator Estes Kefauver's upset nudged President Harry S. Truman into retirement. When LBJ and Muskie flunked the New Hampshire test...
David S. Broder, the Washington Post's veteran political writer, won't be drawn into it until after Labor Day, convinced that "the process has got out of hand in length and cost." He thinks the press itself may have "aided and abetted" this overemphasis, because "it'...