Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon won, but George McGovern successfuly bucked the Nixon breadbasket tide to gain re-election to the Senate. McGovern, the dovish Presidential Candidate in Chicago, was thought to be in trouble in his conservative homeland. By waging a hard campaign stressing his individualism ("courageous prairie statesman") and his seniority, he made up the difference to win with 54 per cent of the vote over 67-year-old Archie Gubbrud. Republican Frank Farrar won election to the governorship on Nixon's coattails...
...assault succeeds, labor's prospects are grim; pro-business legislation is notably hard to repeal. Without the NLRB, unions will be hard-pressed to maintain current wage levels and to keep shops from "running away" to the non-union South. The drive to organize badly paid agricultural, hospital, and Southern workers will be smothered, for unskilled replaceable workers are easily intimidated by the mildest "unfair practice...
Harry Parker strongly denies that the boat suffered for it. "Mentally they were ready to race just as hard and just as fast as they had ever done. I don't think you have to explain being beaten by crews of that caliber...
...Mitchell stuck with the party through the hysteria of the McCarthy years. "Sometimes it was a little hard finding a job," she said, half in jest, half in anger, "and the FBI followed us around all the time. We couldn't do party work in the open." She had to testify before the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and many of her close friends went to jail...
Scars will have two things going against him Tuesday. The first is that he is standing against the rising sentiment for hard-line law enforcement; the second is that he is a Republican in a Democratic city. Democrats who value the most progressive traditions of their party should cross party lines tomorrow to vote for John Sears for Sheriff...