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This parallel activity with opposite purpose has marked Republican and Democratic political groups at the College all fall. Canvassing, poll-watching, literature hawking and button-holing have been the stocks in trade of both sides. Even their memberships are nearly equal--the HYRC's 400 almost cancelling out the Young Democrats' 150 and Liberal Union...
...closeness of this year's Presidential, race has fanned their activity to an intensity unmatched in recent years. The worst of political action, door-to-door canvassing, has been brightened by new group techniques. The HYRC canvassing core, led by Nathaniel Bond '56, Warren Dillon '56, Robert Roger '55 and Gerry Wolff '54, teamed up with lady Republicans from neighboring colleges. Converging on one town each night, they plugged Eisenhower-Nixon in pairs in what they called "Operation Sweeping Victory." Weekend dates and even some full blown romances have come out of this coeducational canvassing...
Despite their smaller membership and factional squabbles, the Young Democrats managed to turn out more canvassers than the HYRC--almost fifteen a night. Besides polling Cambridge citizens on their Presidential choice, the Democrats have huckstered a "Stevenson Comic Book". Canvassing interest in the HLU started slowly, but zoomed after the story got around that one Boston lady locked an HLU canvasser in her room and tried to seduce...
Shunning house-to-house politicking, some have appealled to the voters from the street corner. Holding down the biggest job, and perhaps the hardest working politician in the College, is Roger A. Moore '53, HYRC vice-president. Since the end of June, Moore has spoken nightly from Boston street corners on behalf of the state Republican ticket. He orates from the back of a truck, festooned with a replica of the State House. In his four months of forays into every ethnic neighborhood in the Bosto narea, Moore has used almost all the tricks of the politicians' trade. Here...
Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...